Impact of a patient education program on disparities in kidney transplant evaluation

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 648-655

  Patzer, Rachel E ^a,b   Perryman, Jennie P ^a   Pastan, Stephen ^a,c   Amaral, Sandra ^d   Gazmararian, Julie A ^b   Klein, Mitch ^b   Kutner, Nancy ^c   McClellan, William M ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859550576     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.10071011     Document Type: Article

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