Identifying Outcomes that Are Important to Living Kidney Donors: A Nominal Group Technique Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Living kidney donors prioritized a range of outcomes, with the most important being kidney health and the surgical, lifestyle, functional, and psychosocial effects of donation. Donors also valued improvements to their family life and donor-recipient relationship. There were clear regional differences in the rankings.
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Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - May 31, 2018 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Hanson CS, Chapman JR, Gill JS, Kanellis J, Wong G, Craig JC, Teixeira-Pinto A, Chadban SJ, Garg AX, Ralph AF, Pinter J, Lewis JR, Tong A Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research