Education is associated with reduction in racial disparities in kidney transplant outcome

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 891-899

  Goldfarb Rumyantzev, Alexander S ^a,b   Sandhu, Gurprataap S ^a   Barenbaum, Anna ^c   Baird, Bradley C ^c   Patibandla, Bhanu K ^d   Narra, Akshita ^a   Koford, James K ^e   Barenbaum, Lev ^f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f RenalServicecom Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Education; Outcome; Race ethnicity; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GRADUATE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84870702330     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2012.01662.x     Document Type: Article

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