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Inadequate transplant education may stop kidney patients from beginning or completing evaluation or limit recipients from considering living donation, so the objective of this research was to learn about recipients' decision making about living donation and preferred transplant education resources.

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Besides providing accurate medical information, education that addresses recipients' fears about transplantation, explains living donors' donation experiences, and teaches patients how to pursue living donation may increase recipients' pursuit of living donation.

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This page is a summary of: Optimal Transplant Education for Recipients to Increase Pursuit of Living Donation, Progress in Transplantation, March 2008, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/152692480801800111.
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