Varied Practices for Live Donor Informed Consent in the U.S.

What is it about?

Living kidney donation rates are increasing in the United States and internationally. Major consensus statements on the care of living kidney donors recommend communicating all potential health and psychosocial risks to donors. The authors evaluated the degree of international variation in the process of informed consent of potential donors during their evaluation.

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Why is it important?

As dependence on living organ donation increases best practices for informed consent, donor evaluation and uniform risk conveyance need to be established. This may be accomplished by using a model informed consent template to ensure that informed consent from donors is consistently obtained.