Disparities in completion rates of the medical prerenal transplant evaluation by race or ethnicity and gender

Transplantation

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 236-242

  Monson, Rebecca S ^a   Kemerley, Patricia ^a   Walczak, Douglas ^a   Benedetti, Enrico ^a   Oberholzer, Jose ^a   Danielson, Kirstie K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; ILLINOIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHICAGO; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84920108298     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000271     Document Type: Article

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