Living Donor Informed Consent Checklist

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This checklist contains elements typically reviewed as part of OPTN routine survey activities of
living donor recovery hospitals. Use of this checklist is not an OPTN obligation and does not
guarantee an assessment of compliance with OPTN obligations upon a site survey. This checklist
is intended to guide the development of center-specific processes and tools.
Living Donor Informed Consent Checklist
The living donor recovery hospital is responsible for obtaining and documenting informed consent prior to organ
recovery. Informed consent requirements apply to living kidney, liver, pancreas, intestine, and lung donors and must
include all of the components listed below. Documentation of informed consent must be maintained in the living donor
medical record.
All Living Donors
Obtain from living donors:
The living donor’s signature on a document that confirms that the donor:
1. Is willing to donate
2. Is free from inducement and coercion
3. Has been informed that he or she may decline to donate at any time
Provide to living donors:
1. An opportunity to discontinue the living donor consent or evaluation process in a way that is protected and
confidential.
2. The ILDA must be available to assist the living donor during the consent process, according to Policy 14.2:
Independent Living Donor Advocate (ILDA) Requirements.
3. Instruction about all phases of the living donation process, which includes:
Consent
Medical and psychosocial evaluations
Pre- and post-operative care
Required post-operative follow-up according to Policy 18.5: Living Donor Data Submission
Requirements.
(Teaching or instructional material can include any media, one-on-one or small group interaction. Teaching or
instruction must be provided in a language in which the living donor is able to engage in meaningful dialogue
with recovery hospital’s staff.)
Disclose to living donors:
1.
It is a federal crime for any person to knowingly acquire, obtain or otherwise transfer any human organ for
anything of value including, but not limited, to cash, property, and vacations.
2. The recovery hospital must provide an ILDA.
3. Alternate procedures or courses of treatment for the recipient, including deceased donor transplantation.
4. A deceased donor organ may become available for the candidate before the recovery hospital completes
the living donor’s evaluation or the living donor transplant occurs.
5. Transplant hospitals determine candidacy for transplantation based on existing hospital specific guidelines
or practices and clinical judgment.
6. The recovery hospital will take all reasonable precautions to provide confidentiality for the living donor and
recipient.
7. Any transplant candidate may have an increased likelihood of adverse outcomes (including but not limited
to graft failure, complications, and mortality) that:
Exceed local or national averages
Do not necessarily prohibit transplantation
Are not disclosed to the living donor
8.
The recovery hospital can disclose to the living donor certain information about candidates only with
permission of the candidate, including:
The reasons for a transplant candidate’s increased likelihood of adverse outcomes

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