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SUBMITTER: Steel J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3409345 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20120501 8
In 2000, representatives of the transplant community convened for a meeting on living donation in an effort to provide recommendations to promote the welfare of living donors. One key recommendation included in the consensus statement was that all transplant centers which have performed living donor surgeries have an independent living donor advocate (ILDA) "whose only focus is on the best interest of the donor." The aims of this study were to begin to understand the sociodemographic characteris ...[more]