Table 1.
Characteristics of the participants
| Characteristic | % |
|---|---|
| Province’s LDKT performancea | |
| High | 64.9 |
| Low | 35.1 |
| Role | |
| Physician | 29.2 |
| Nephrologist (donor) | 2.6 |
| Nephrologist (referring) | 18.7 |
| Nephrologist (transplant) | 6.5 |
| Trainee doctor | 1.4 |
| Nonphysician | 70.8 |
| Administrative assistant | 2.3 |
| Dietician | 2.8 |
| Nurse (chronic kidney disease) | 11.9 |
| Nurse (dialysis) | 25.2 |
| Nurse (manager) | 7.9 |
| Other | 8.8 |
| Patient partner | 0.3 |
| Social worker | 6.0 |
| Technician (dialysis) | 1.1 |
| Transplant coordinator | 4.5 |
| Age | |
| <35 | 15.0 |
| 35–44 | 24.7 |
| 45–54 | 33.7 |
| 55–64 | 16.7 |
| ≥65 | 4.8 |
| Prefer not to answer | 5.1 |
| Self-identified Race | |
| Caucasian or White | 73.9 |
| Other | 19.3 |
| Asian | 8.8 |
| Black or African American | 1.1 |
| Indigenous | 0.9 |
| Middle Eastern or North African | 0.9 |
| Mixed | 1.7 |
| Other | 1.1 |
| Pacific Islander | 0.3 |
| South Asian | 4.5 |
| Prefer not to answer | 6.8 |
| Self-identified Gender | |
| Female | 75.6 |
| Male | 20.1 |
| Other | 0 |
| Prefer not to answer | 4.3 |
| Yr of experience | |
| ≤10 | 39.9 |
| >10 | 60.1 |
LDKT, living donor kidney transplantation.
a
High-performing provinces were those with living donor rates consistently above the national average of 15 living donors per million population (British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, North-West Territories) whereas low-performing provinces were those whose rates were consistently below (Québec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island).