Quality of life of living kidney donors in Germany: a survey with the Validated Short Form-36 and Giessen Subjective Complaints List-24 questionnaires.

Background.Most studies evaluating the impact of kidney donation on donors’ quality of life (QOL) have limitations such as small cohort size, unmatched references, use of nonstandardized and nonvalidated questionnaires, or low response rates.Methods.We performed a study on donors’ QOL that was desig