Barriers to living donor kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom: A national observational study

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 890-900

  Wu, Diana A ^a   Robb, Matthew L ^b   Watson, Christopher J E ^c   Forsythe, John L R ^a,b   Tomson, Charles R V ^d   Cairns, John ^e   Roderick, Paul ^f   Johnson, Rachel J ^b   Ravanan, Rommel ^g   Fogarty, Damian ^h   Bradley, Clare ⁱ   Gibbons, Andrea ⁱ   Metcalfe, Wendy ^a   Draper, Heather ^j   Bradley, Andrew J ^c   Oniscu, Gabriel C ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^g SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

inequity; kidney transplantation; living donor; preemptive transplantation; sociodemographic disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIER; DONOR SELECTION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DONOR SELECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85020221871     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfx036     Document Type: Article

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