Psychosocial characteristics of potential and actual living kidney donors

BMC Nephrology

Table 3 Reason for Denial

	Overall Not Approved Group (N = 104)	Not Approved Group with Moderate or High Risk SW Score (N = 48)
Medical reason only	76 (73.1)	24 (50.0)
Psychosocial reason only	10 (9.6)	10 (20.8)
Medical and psychosocial reason	9 (8.7)	7 (14.6)
Lost to follow up	9 (8.7)	7 (14.6)

^*14 potential donors were eliminated from the study because their recipient wasn’t listed or they specifically stated they wanted to stop the evaluation before a committee decision could be made. However, a few “not approved” donors (N = 9) were included in the study who did not have a clear reason for drop out

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