Seychelle Yohanna, Kyla L Naylor, Jessica M Sontrop, Christine M Ribic, Catherine M Clase, Matthew C Miller, Sunchit Madan, Richard Hae, Jasper Ho, Jian Roushani, Sarah Parfeniuk, Melodie Jansen, Sharon Shavel, Michelle Richter, Kimberly Young, Brooke Cowell, Shahid Lambe, Peter Margetts, Kevin Piercey, Vikas Tandon, Colm Boylan, Carol Wang, Susan McKenzie, Barb Longo, Amit X Garg
PURPOSE OF PROGRAM: A key barrier to becoming a living kidney donor is an inefficient evaluation process, requiring more than 30 tests (eg, laboratory and diagnostic tests), questionnaires, and specialist consultations. Donor candidates make several trips to hospitals and clinics, and often spend months waiting for appointments and test results. The median evaluation time for a donor candidate in Ontario, Canada, is nearly 1 year. Longer wait times are associated with poorer outcomes for the kidney transplant recipient and higher health care costs...
2024: Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease