Health System–Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Protocol for a Comparative Case Study Analysis

Anna Horton   ¹ , MSc ;   Katya Loban   ¹ , PhD ;   Peter Nugus   ² , PhD ;   Marie-Chantal Fortin   ^{3, 4} , MD ;   Lakshman Gunaratnam   ^{5, 6} , MD ;   Greg Knoll   ^{7, 8} , MD ;   Istvan Mucsi   ^{9, 10} , MD ;   Prosanto Chaudhury   ^{1, 11} , MD ;   David Landsberg   ¹² , MD ;   Michel Paquet   ^{3, 4} , MD ;   Marcelo Cantarovich   ¹ , MD ;   Shaifali Sandal   ^{1, 13} , MD

¹ Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

² Department of Family Medicine and the Institute of Health Sciences Education, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

³ Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁴ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁵ Matthew Mailing Centre for Translational Transplant Studies, Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada

⁶ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

⁷ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁸ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁹ Ajmera Transplant Center and Division of Nephrology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Division of Nephrology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹¹ Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹² Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

¹³ Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada