Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) engaged an evidence review team
and convened a work group to produce a guideline to evaluate and manage candidates for …

Abstract The 2017 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice
Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors is intended to assist medical …

Live donor kidney transplantation is the best treatment option for most patients with late-
stage chronic kidney disease; however, the rate of living kidney donation has declined in the …

About 6,000 individuals participate in the US transplant system as a living organ donor each
year. Organ donation (most commonly a kidney or part of liver) by living individuals is a …

Much of economics assumes that higher incentives increase participation in a transaction
only because they exceed more people's reservation price. This paper shows theoretically …

Living kidney donors are often excluded from the shared decision making and patient-
centered models that are advocated in medical practice. Thresholds for acceptable risk vary …

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 …

Background Publications from the last decade have increased knowledge regarding long-
term risks after kidney donation. We wanted to perform a survey to assess how transplant …

Introduction: Although informed consent content elements are prescribed in detailed
regulatory guidance, many live kidney donors describe feeling underprepared and under …

Background Ensuring donor wellbeing warrants ongoing monitoring after living kidney
donation. However, there is considerable variability in donor follow-up processes, including …