Kidney transplantation and wait-listing rates from the international Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS)

Kidney International

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 330-337

  Satayathum, Suditida ^b   Pisoni, Ronald L ^c   McCullough, Keith P ^c   Merion, Robert M ^c   Wikström, Bjorn ^c   Levin, Nathan ^c   Chen, Kenneth ^c   Wolfe, Robert A ^c   Goodkin, David A ^a   Piera, Luis ^c   Asano, Yasushi ^c   Kurokawa, Kiyoshi ^c   Fukuhara, Shunichi ^c   Held, Philip J ^c   Port, Friedrich K ^c  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b Univ Ren Res and Educ Assoc   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cadaveric kidney transplantation; End stage renal disease; Socioeconomic status; Transplant wait listing; Transplantation access

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFIT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NON PROFIT HOSPITAL; RACE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, PROPRIETARY; HOSPITALS, VOLUNTARY; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 24944466591     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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