Transforming Living Kidney Donation with a Comprehensive Strategy

Matthew B Allen; Peter P Reese

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001948

Transforming Living Kidney Donation with a Comprehensive Strategy

PLoS Med. 2016 Feb 2;13(2):e1001948. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001948. eCollection 2016 Feb.

Authors

Matthew B Allen¹, Peter P Reese^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
² Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
³ Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Abstract

Matthew Allen and Peter Reese argue that evidence-based efforts should be implemented to expand living kidney donation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Guidelines as Topic*
Humans
Kidney Transplantation / standards*
Living Donors*
Tissue and Organ Harvesting / standards*
Tissue and Organ Procurement / standards*

Grants and funding

PPR is supported by the Greenwall Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.