Measuring quality in living donation and kidney transplantation: moving beyond survival metrics

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: gknoll@toh.ca.
• ² Research Centre of the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, Québec, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ³ Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁵ Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ⁶ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁷ Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁸ Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Patient Governance Council, Can-SOLVE CKD Network, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.