Author Interviews, Kidney Disease, Transplantation / 09.11.2023
Kidney Transplant and Living Kidney Donation: Multicomponent Program to Improve Patient Access
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Collective responses from study authors:
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
- Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) have the best chance for a longer and healthier life if they receive a kidney transplant.
- However, due to many barriers, many eligible patients today will never receive a kidney transplant.
- Advanced CKD care is provided by 26 chronic kidney disease (CKD) programs managed by a government funded provincial renal agency (the Ontario Renal Network)
- Together these 26 programs treat ~ 24,000 patients each year
- This care is provided by over 3400 nurses and 230 nephrologists
- To patients approaching the need for dialysis and those receiving dialysis
- Approximately half are transplant eligible
- ~ 600 kidney transplants done in Ontario each year across 6 transplant centres
- with approximately.30% of kidneys coming from living donors