title: Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Facilitating Education about Live Kidney Donation--Recommendations from a Consensus Conference.
abstract: The Best Practice in Live Kidney Donation Consensus Conference held in June of 2014 included the Best Practices in Living Donor Education Workgroup, whose charge was to identify best practice strategies in education of living donors, community outreach initiatives, commercial media, solicitation, and state registries. The workgroup's goal was to identify critical content to include in living kidney donor education and best methods to deliver educational content. A detailed summary of considerations regarding educational content issues for potential living kidney donors is presented, including the consensus that was reached. Educational topics that may require updating on the basis of emerging studies on living kidney donor health outcomes are also presented. Enhancing the educational process is important for increasing living donor comprehension to optimize informed decision-making.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California; janetan@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Jane C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Center for Healthcare Studies and Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois;
authors.forename: Elisa J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
authors.forename: Mary Amanda
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Dew
authors.affiliation: Recanati Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York;
authors.forename: Dianne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: LaPointe Rudow
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California;
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Steiner
authors.affiliation: Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio;
authors.forename: E Steve
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Woodle
authors.affiliation: Transplant Center, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin;
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hays
authors.affiliation: Transplant Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and.
authors.forename: James R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rodrigue
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Dorry L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Segev
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D032921:Consensus; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000193:education*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000193:education*; D009398:Nephrology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013997:Time Factors; D066027:Transplant Recipients / Q000193:education*
keywords: education; informed consent; kidney donor; living donor