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17359510

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-4-25
pubmed:abstractText
Under the auspices of the United Network for Organ Sharing, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation, a meeting was convened on May 25, 2006, in Washington, DC, to develop guidelines for the psychosocial evaluation of prospective living kidney donors who have neither a biologic nor longstanding emotional relationship with the transplant candidate. These 'unrelated' donors are increasingly often identified by transplant candidates via the Internet, print media and other public appeals. The expansion of living donor kidney transplantation to include significant numbers of donors with little to no preexisting relationship to the candidate has caused concern in the medical community regarding such psychosocial factors as donor psychological status, motivation, knowledge about donation and the potential for undue pressure to donate under some circumstances. Therefore, experts in mental health; psychosocial, behavioral and transplant medicine; and medical ethics met to specify (a) characteristics of unrelated donors that increase their risk for, or serve as protective factors against, poor donor psychosocial outcomes, (b) basic principles underlying informed consent and evaluation processes pertinent to these donors and (c) the process and content of the donor psychosocial evaluation. The meeting deliberations resulted in the recommendations made in this report.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1600-6135
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1047-54
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Guidelines for the psychosocial evaluation of living unrelated kidney donors in the United States.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. dewma@upmc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Congresses, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Practice Guideline