Effect of education on racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-81

  Goldfarb Rumyantzev, Alexander S ^a   Sandhu, Gurprataap S ^a   Baird, Bradley ^b   Barenbaum, Anna ^c   Yoon, Joo Heung ^d   Dimitri, Noelle ^a   Koford, James K ^e   Shihab, Fuad ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to transplantation; Education; Outcome; Race; Racial and ethnic disparities; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; COLLEGE; COMORBIDITY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENDER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRADUATE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH SCHOOL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; ONSET AGE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856654949     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01390.x     Document Type: Article

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