Living Kidney Donor Knowledge of Provided Information and Informed Consent: The PRINCE Study.

ABSTRACT: Informed consent for living kidney donation is paramount, as donors are healthy individuals undergoing surgery for the benefit of others. The informed consent process for living kidney donors is heterogenous, and the question concerns how well they are actually informed. Knowledge assessments, before and after donor education, can form the basis for a standardized informed consent procedure for live kidney donation. In this prospective, a multicenter national cohort study conducted in all eight kidney transplant centers in The Netherlands, we assessed the current status of the informed consent practice for live donor nephrectomy. All of the potential living kidney donors in the participating centers were invited to participate. They completed a pop quiz during their first outpatient appoin

SUBMITTER: Spoon EQW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8837079 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature