The Flow of Living Kidney Donor Candidates Through the Evaluation Process: A Single-Center Experience in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tracking the evaluation process of living kidney donor candidates facilitates benchmarking and can inform process redesign to improve experiences with the evaluation and enable more living donor kidney transplantation.

Methods

We reviewed the medical records for all living donor candidates who were actively undergoing evaluation at any time between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2016, at the London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, Canada. We abstracted information on demographic factors, the evaluation process, reasons for a delayed evaluation, reasons for an evaluation termination (eg, donation, decline, withdrawal, loss to follow-up), frequency and timing of evaluation testing, and recipient dialysis status.

Results

Over time, the number of

SUBMITTER: Habbous S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11960183 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature