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Measuring The Efficiency Of The Living Kidney Donor Candidate Evaluation Process, Steven Habbous
Measuring The Efficiency Of The Living Kidney Donor Candidate Evaluation Process, Steven Habbous
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Background: Living kidney donation is the ideal treatment for many patients with kidney failure. However, the living donor evaluation process has been criticized by patients and healthcare providers as inefficient. In the present research, we evaluated the inefficiency of the living donor evaluation process.
Methods: We conducted a scoping review of the literature and obtained data from large administrative datasets (1256 living donors) and medical chart review (849 prospectively recruited living donors across 12 transplant centres plus retrospective analysis of 1065 living donor candidates from a single centre).
Results: The median time to complete the entire evaluation was 9-11 months …