Observational studyClinical transplantation2015
Racial disparities in reaching the renal transplant waitlist: is geography as important as race?
Observational study in Clinical transplantation, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
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28 citing papers in PubMed.
- Association between Rurality and Evaluation Start among Referred Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease.American journal of nephrology · 2026Article
- Sociodemographic Barriers to Starting the Kidney Transplantation Evaluation Process and Waitlisting in the Ohio River Valley.American journal of nephrology · 2025Article
- The Association between Residential Segregation and Access to Kidney Transplantation: Evidence from a Multistate Cohort Study.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2024Article
- Identifying when racial and ethnic disparities arise along the continuum of transplant care: a national registry study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
- Care of Adults with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Implementation of the ASCENT Trial to Improve Transplant Waitlisting Access.Kidney international reports · 2024Article
- Geographic hot spots of kidney transplant candidates wait-listed post-dialysis.Clinical transplantation · 2022Article
- Changes in excess mortality among adults with diabetes-related end-stage kidney disease: a comparison between the USA and Australia.Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association · 2022Article
- County-Level Dialysis Facility Supply and Distance Traveled to Facilities among Incident Kidney Failure Patients.Kidney360 · 2022Article
- Health Disparities in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) in the United States.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2022Article
- A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- Past and Present Policy Efforts in Achieving Racial Equity in Kidney Transplantation.Current transplantation reports · 2022Review
- Examining the Potential Impact of Race Multiplier Utilization in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Calculation on African-American Care Outcomes.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Access to High-Quality Dialysis Treatment in Chicago: Does Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Composition Matter?Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2020Article
- Effects of Social Disparities on Management and Surgical Outcomes for Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism.World journal of surgery · 2020Article
- Unexpected Race and Ethnicity Differences in the US National Veterans Affairs Kidney Transplant Program.Transplantation · 2019Article
- Variation in Kidney Transplant Referral: How Much More Evidence Do We Need To Justify Data Collection on Early Transplant Steps?Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2019Article
- Renal Transplantation and Survival Among Patients With Lupus Nephritis: A Cohort Study.Annals of internal medicine · 2019Article
- Factors Considered by Nephrologists in Excluding Patients from Kidney Transplant Referral.International journal of organ transplantation medicine · 2019Article
- Evolving Trends in Racial Disparities for Peri-Operative Outcomes with the New Kidney Allocation System (KAS) Implementation.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn the United States, African Americans and whites differ in access to the deceased donor renal transplant waitlist. The extent to which racial disparities in waitlisting differ between United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) regions is understudied.
methodsThe US Renal Data System (USRDS) was linked with US census data to examine time from dialysis initiation to waitlisting for whites (n = 188,410) and African Americans (n = 144,335) using Cox proportional hazards across 11 UNOS regions, adjusting for potentially confounding individual, neighborhood, and state characteristics.
resultsLikelihood of waitlisting varies significantly by UNOS region, overall and by race. Additionally, African Americans face significantly lower likelihood of waitlisting compared to whites in all but two regions (1 and 6). Overall, 39% of African Americans with ESRD reside in Regions 3 and 4--regions with a large racial disparity and where African Americans comprise a large proportion of the ESRD population. In these regions, the African American-white disparity is an important contributor to their overall regional disparity.
conclusionsRace remains an important factor in time to transplant waitlist in the United States. Race contributes to overall regional disparities; however, the importance of race varies by UNOS region.
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