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This paper presents novel, evidence-based guidance around engaging potential recipients and living donors in education about living donor kidney transplant. A promising strategy for increasing living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) rates is improving education about living donation for both prospective kidney transplant recipients and living donors to help overcome the proven knowledge, psychological, and socioeconomic barriers to LDKT. A recent Consensus Conference on Best Practices in Live Kidney Donation recommended that comprehensive LDKT education be made available to patients at all stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
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These recommendations can be used by transplant and dialysis centers throughout the United States, as well as internationally.
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This page is a summary of: Educating Prospective Kidney Transplant Recipients and Living Donors about Living Donation: Practical and Theoretical Recommendations for Increasing Living Donation Rates, Current Transplantation Reports, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s40472-016-0090-0.
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