Functional Status, Time to Transplantation, and Survival Benefit of Kidney Transplantation Among Wait-Listed Candidates

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 837-845

  Reese, Peter P ^a,b   Shults, Justine ^b   Bloom, Roy D ^a   Mussell, Adam ^b   Harhay, Meera N ^a,b   Abt, Peter ^a   Levine, Matthew ^a   Johansen, Kirsten L ^c   Karlawish, Jason T ^a,b   Feldman, Harold I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

36 Item Short Form Health Survey (SF 36); dialysis; End stage renal disease (ESRD); functional status; kidney transplant allocation; kidney transplantation; physical function; post transplantation complications; renal replacement therapy modality; survival benefit; transplant waiting list

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REGISTER; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT FORM 36; TIME; WAIT LISTED CANDIDATE; AGED; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; TIME TO TREATMENT;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84945191712     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.05.015     Document Type: Article

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