Use of Patient Navigators to Reduce Barriers in Living Donation and Living Donor Transplantation

The transplant community is facing an important and growing crisis in healthcare disparities, which limits the access of vulnerable populations to successful transplant and its most ideal form, living donor transplantation [1–6]. The time is now to implement strategies that facilitate access to timely living donor transplant and relieve the pressure on a burdened deceased donor waiting list. Patient navigation programs have arisen as distinctive...