Open AccessEnhanced Advocacy and Health Systems Training Through Patient Navigation Increases Access to Living-donor Kidney Transplantation
Author(s) -
Jayme E. Locke,
Rhian D. Reed,
Vineeta Kumar,
Beverly Berry,
Daagye Hendricks,
Alexis Carter,
Brittany A. Shelton,
Margaux N. Mustian,
Paul A. MacLennan,
Haiyan Qu,
Lonnie Han,
Clayton Yates,
Michael J. Hanaway
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000002732
Subject(s) - hazard ratio , medicine , confidence interval , kidney transplantation , proportional hazards model , donation , cohort , transplantation , veterans affairs , cohort study , gerontology , demography , sociology , economics , economic growth
To date, no living donation program has simultaneously addressed the needs of both transplant candidates and living donors by separating the advocacy role from the candidate and improving potential donor comfort with the evaluation process. We hypothesized that the development of a novel program designed to promote both advocacy and systems training among transplant candidates and their potential living kidney donors would result in sustained increases in living-donor kidney transplantation (LDKT). To this end, we developed and implemented a Living Donor Navigator (LDN) Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.