Racial disparities in reaching the renal transplant waitlist: Is geography as important as race?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 531-538

  Saunders, Milda R ^a,b   Lee, Haena ^a,c   Alexander, G Caleb ^d   Tak, Hyo Jung ^e   Thistlethwaite, J Richard ^a   Ross, Lainie Friedman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic factors; Healthcare disparity; Kidney transplant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930824081     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.12547     Document Type: Article

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