Neighborhood poverty and racial disparities in kidney transplant waitlisting

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1333-1340

  Patzer, Rachel E ^a   Amaral, Sandra ^b   Wasse, Haimanot ^a,b   Volkova, Nataliya ^a   Kleinbaum, David ^a   McClellan, William M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT INFORMATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL AREA;

EID: 67449084421     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: 15333450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2008030335     Document Type: Article

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