Table 5.

Key recommendations for education of potential living donors

Provide early education and education intermittently thereafter to potential donors

Begin with the primary nephrologist

Educate potential donors about how to interpret risk information

Educate potential donors about the limitations and controversial nature of available risk information

Establish a living donor education toolkit for potential live kidney donors that contains educational resources delivered at a low reading grade level (e.g., website, videos of living donor testimonials, videos of liver donor evaluation procedures, potential resources, such as information about working with patient navigators, reading materials, social networks for potential living donors, financial assistance programs, etc.)

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