The "House Calls" Trial: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Racial Disparities in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation: Rationale and Design

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 811-818

  Rodrigue, James R ^a,b   Pavlakis, Martha ^a,b   Egbuna, Ogo ^c   Paek, Matthew ^a   Waterman, Amy D ^d   Mandelbrot, Didier A ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Kidney transplantation; Living donation; Randomized trial; Transplant education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KNOWLEDGE; LIVE DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84861526102     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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