Transition of Care of Kidney Recipients from Transplant Centers to Referring Nephrologists: Report from the American Society of Transplantation Controversies Conference
The expanding number of surviving kidney transplant patients, driven in part by federal initiatives to increase transplant access for patients with advanced CKD, has strained the capacity of the existing transplant nephrology workforce to manage longer-term post-transplant recipients. As patients are living longer with working allografts, the need for effective long-term management has become very important. This can only be achieved by closer collaboration between transplant centers and referring nephrologists.
