"They Know You Better Than the Transplant Team": An Interpretive Description Study Exploring the Perspectives of Living Kidney Donors About Care Received From Family Physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the significant benefits of living donor kidney transplantation, the nephrology and transplant communities are augmenting efforts to increase living kidney donation. However, prior living kidney donors (LKDs) report suboptimal experiences and unmet care needs. The LKDs are healthy, and the vast majority have good outcomes post-donation. Thus, in clinical practice, their care is primarily assumed by practitioners, such as family physicians (FPs).

Objective

This study aimed to better understand the integration of primary care in LKDs' donation trajectory from the point of view of the latter. Our specific research questions were: (1) How do LKDs perceive the role of FPs currently integrated into the donation trajectory? (2) What are their needs and expectations

SUBMITTER: Loban K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11909672 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature