Publications by authors named "D Landsberg"
Introduction: Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the best treatment option for patients with kidney failure. Efforts to increase LDKT have focused on microlevel interventions and the need for systems thinking has been highlighted. We aimed to identify and compare health system-level attributes and processes that are facilitators and barriers to LDKT.
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- The study focuses on improving organ donation and transplant efficiency in British Columbia, Canada, through enhanced cooperation between organ procurement organizations and transplant programs.
- It analyzed metrics from nearly 2,000 referred deceased organ donors over four years to determine the effectiveness of various implemented policies and practices.
- Key findings include high consent rates (78%) and utilization rates (99%) of kidneys from eligible donors, with strategies like dedicated coordinators and improved communication significantly contributing to the system's success.
Background: Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the best treatment option for patients with kidney failure and offers significant medical and economic advantages for both patients and health systems. Despite this, rates of LDKT in Canada have stagnated and vary significantly across Canadian provinces, the reasons for which are not well understood. Our prior work has suggested that system-level factors may be contributing to these differences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Studying existing health systems with variable living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) performance and understanding factors that drive these differences can inform comprehensive system-level approaches to improve LDKT. We aimed to quantify previously identified barriers and estimate their association with LDKT performance.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of health professionals (HPs).