INTRODUCTION The transplant community has an opportunity to improve clinical follow-up
and data collection opportunities, to implement standardized psychometrics instruments in …

Background. Best practices in psychosocial evaluation and care of living donor candidates
and donors are not well established. Methods. We surveyed 195 living kidney donor (LKD) …

This article is intended to help mental health clinicians who work with kidney transplant
teams enhance their understanding, abilities and skills to determine the best possible …

BACKGROUND Living kidney donor transplantation leads to better outcomes for the
transplant recipient; however, there is increasing concern about the safety and wellbeing of …

Under the auspices of the United Network for Organ Sharing, the American Society of
Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation, a meeting was convened …

This article describes the development and implementation of an initiative at one transplant
center to annually assess psychosocial outcomes of living kidney donors. The current …

Objectives Living donor kidney transplantation offers advantages to the patient, however
involves risks to the donor. To optimize donors' mental health after donation, we studied the …

At the 2010 Conference on Living Kidney Donor follow-up, a workgroup was convened to
comment on the state of the evidence in 4 broad areas:(a) health-related quality of life …

Knowledge of the psychosocial benefits and harms faced by living kidney donors is
necessary for informed consent and follow-up. We reviewed any English language study …

The impact of living kidney donation on donors' mental health has not been sufficiently nor
comprehensively studied. Earlier studies demonstrated that mental health did not change in …