Rates of kidney transplantation from living and deceased donors for blacks and whites in the United States, 1998 to 2011

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1716-1718

  Sood, Akshay ^a,b   Abdullah, Newaj M ^a   Abdollah, Firas ^a   Abouljoud, Marwan S ^a   Trinh, Quoc Dien ^b   Menon, Mani ^a   Sammon, Jesse D ^a,b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK PERSON; CADAVER DONOR; CAUCASIAN; DIABETES MELLITUS; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943568613     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.4530     Document Type: Letter

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