Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Living Kidney Donors

Randomized Trial of Financial Incentives to Increase Response Rates to a Mailed Survey of Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Living Kidney Donors

This is a mailed survey to persons who served as living kidney donors at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. The experimental component of this study (the clinical trial) is a randomized trial of two monetary incentives for the living kidney donors invited to participate in the study. Kidney donors will be randomized to receive one of two incentives in the mailed survey packet: $2 cash vs. $5 cash. The main outcome measure is the response rate to the survey.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Persons who donated a living donor kidney at Saint Barnabas Medical Center between January 2000 and December 2006 are eligible to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current address outside the continental United States
• Persons who donated a living donor kidney prior to January 2000 or after December 2006
• Persons who indicated they no longer wished to be contacted by Saint Barnabas Medical Center