Living Kidney Donor Phenotype and Likelihood of Postdonation Follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network requires that United States transplant centers maintain follow-up with living donors for 2 years postdonation, but lack of donor follow-up is pervasive. Donor characteristics, including younger age, minority race, and lower education, have been associated with incomplete follow-up, but it is unknown whether altruistic donors, having no previous connection to their recipient, differ from traditional donors in their likelihood of follow-up.

Methods

Using the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data, we examined all adult living kidney donors from 2005 to 2015 (n = 63 592) classified as altruistic or traditional, and compared likelihood of 6-month medical follow-up using modified Poisson regression.

Result

SUBMITTER: Reed RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5741543 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature