ArticleTransplantation2020
Does Sex, Race, and the Size of a Kidney Transplant Candidate's Social Network Affect the Number of Living Donor Requests? A Multicenter Social Network Analysis of Patients on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist.
Article in Transplantation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06182475 (Increasing Equity in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Through Effective Patient-Provider Communication), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers.
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Increasing Equity in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Through Effective Patient-Provider Communication
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Patients' Attitudes on the Use of Expanded Outreach to Find a Kidney Donor: A Mixed-Methods Study.Kidney medicine · 2026Article
- A Cross-Sectional Social Network Analysis of Decision-Making About Recruiting a Living Donor for Kidney Transplantation.Kidney medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluation via simulation of statistical corrections for network nonindependence.Health services & outcomes research methodology · 2024Article
- Reviewing Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: a Socioecological Approach.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Review
- Intersectional race and gender disparities in kidney transplant access in the United States: a scoping review.BMC nephrology · 2024Article
- Relationship of Social Deprivation Among Living Kidney Donor-Recipient Pairs.Transplantation direct · 2024Article
- The ties that transplant: The social capital determinants of the living kidney donor relationship distribution.Social science research · 2023Article
- Expanding Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplants Through Social Networks.Kidney medicine · 2023Article
- Dialysis Patients' Social Networks and Living Donation Offers.Kidney medicine · 2023Article
- Impact of having potential living donors on ethnic/racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022Article
- Greater community vulnerability is associated with poor living donor navigator program fidelity.Surgery · 2022Article
- A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- Utilizing Social Media to Identify Potential Living Donors: Learning from US Living Donor Programs.Current transplantation reports · 2022Review
- Evaluation of Community-Level Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplant.JAMA surgery · 2021Article
- African Americans' discussions about living-donor kidney transplants with family or friends: Who, what, and why not?Clinical transplantation · 2021Article
- Roles, Relationships, Resources, and Renal Exchange: Applying Social Capital Theory to Role Effects on Living Kidney Donation Behaviors.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
backgroundA kidney transplant candidate's social network serves as a pool of potential living donors. Sex and racial differences in network size, network strength, and living donor requests may contribute to disparities in living donor kidney transplantation.
methodsIn this multicenter cross-sectional study, we performed an egocentric network analysis via a telephone survey of 132 waitlisted candidates (53% female and 69% Black) to identify demographic and network factors associated with requesting living kidney donations.
resultsFemale participants made requests to more network members than male participants: incidence rate ratio (IRR) 1.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.24-3.06], P < 0.01. Black participants tended to make more requests than whites (IRR 1.65, 95% CI [0.99-2.73], P = 0.05). The number of requests increased with the size of the network (IRR 1.09, 95% CI [1.02-1.16], P = 0.01); however, network size did not differ by sex or race. Network members who provided greater instrumental support to the candidates were most likely to receive a request: odds ratio 1.39, 95% CI [1.08-1.78], P = 0.01.
conclusionsTransplant candidates' networks vary in size and in the number of requests made to the members. Previously observed racial and sex disparities in living donor kidney transplantation do not appear to be related to network size or to living donation requests, but rather to the network members themselves. Future living donor interventions should focus on the network members and be tailored to their relationship with the candidate.
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