Living donation
Policy & Guidance
- OPTN Policy 14: Living donation (PDF - 2.5 M)
- Evaluation plan guidance (PDF - 91 K)
- Template tools to document ABO verification in the OR (5/2017)
- Recognizing seasonal and geographically endemic infections in living donors (11/2014)
- Collecting follow-up data from living donors (6/2014)
- Identifying risk factors for West Nile Virus in living donors (6/2013)
- Identifying risk factors for mycobacterium tuberculosis (11/2012)
- Procedures to collect post-donation follow-up data from living donors
View additional patient safety policy guidance
Information
- Journal article detailing strategies to improve access to living donor transplantation
Instruction
The following living donation instructional recordings are available.
- Informed consent and psychosocial and medical evaluation for living donors
- New living donor program requirements: standardizing patient care
- The living liver donor: new OPTN policy requirements for follow-up data reporting
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