Steven Habbous, Jennifer Arnold, Mehmet A Begen, Neil Boudville, Matthew Cooper, Christine Dipchand, Stephanie N Dixon, Liane S Feldman, Dariusz Goździk, Martin Karpinski, Scott Klarenbach, Greg A Knoll, Ngan N Lam, Krista L Lentine, Charmaine Lok, Eric McArthur, Susan McKenzie, Matthew Miller, Mauricio Monroy-Cuadros, Chris Nguan, G V Ramesh Prasad, Sebastian Przech, Sisira Sarma, Dorry L Segev, Leroy Storsley, Amit X Garg
BACKGROUND: A prolonged living kidney donor evaluation may result in worse outcomes for transplant recipients. Better knowledge of the duration of this process may help inform future donors and identify opportunities for improvement. STUDY DESIGN: 1 prospective and 1 retrospective cohort study. SETTING & PARTICIPANTS: At 16 Canadian and Australian transplantation centers (prospective cohort) and 5 Ontario transplantation centers (retrospective cohort), we assessed the duration of living kidney donor evaluation and explored donor, recipient, and transplantation factors associated with longer evaluation times...
March 24, 2018: American Journal of Kidney Diseases: the Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation