Recipient's unemployment restricts access to renal transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 598-606

  Sandhu, Gurprataap S ^a   Khattak, Muhammad ^b   Pavlakis, Martha ^c   Woodward, Robert ^d   Hanto, Douglas W ^c   Wasilewski, Marcy A ^c   Dimitri, Noelle ^c   Goldfarb Rumyantzev, Alexander ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Disparity; Employment; Renal allograft; Transplant; Waiting list

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABLED PERSON; EMPLOYER; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; SOCIAL WORKER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

ACCESS; DISPARITY; EMPLOYMENT; RENAL ALLOGRAFT; TRANSPLANT; WAITING LIST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881558873     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.12177     Document Type: Article

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