Table 3.

Program recommendations from the Consensus Conference on Best Practices in Live Kidney Donation

Highest Priority Hire dedicated living donor personnel, including a living donor coordinator and dedicated physician champion or director Participate in an active KPD program or refer potential incompatible pairs to programs that do

High Priority Develop a culture among members of the transplant center staff supporting the LKD program Ensure that systems and personnel are in place to respond immediately and thoroughly to living donor inquiries Create an expedited process for transplant candidates with potential LKDs who are at lower risk/lower morbidity or who may be able to receive a transplant pre-emptively Carefully evaluate medically complex donors and inform donor candidates who are turned down because of these issues that they may have access to donation at programs with different eligibility criteria Collect and systematically review living donor metrics to measure efficiencies Create a quality improvement program to ensure ongoing evaluation and improvement of transplant candidate and living donor education about LDKT