The role of the economic environment in kidney transplant outcomes

: The relationship between global economic indicators and kidney allograft and patient survival is unknown. To investigate possible relationships between the two, we analyzed kidney transplant recipients receiving transplants between January of 1995 and December of 2002 (n = 105 181) in the USA usi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical transplantation 2009-09, Vol.23 (5), p.643-652
Hauptverfasser:	Gueye, Abdou S., Baird, Bradley C., Shihab, Fuad, Koford, James K., Barenbaum, Anna L., Leviatov, Alexander, Goldfarb-Rumyantzev, Alexander S.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Biological and medical sciences consumer price index Dow Jones economic Indicator Female Follow-Up Studies Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Fundamental immunology Graft Rejection - economics Graft Rejection - epidemiology Graft Survival Humans kidney Kidney Failure, Chronic - economics Kidney Failure, Chronic - mortality Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy Kidney Transplantation Male Medical sciences Miscellaneous outcome Prognosis Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine recipient survival Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases Survival Rate Tissue, organ and graft immunology transplantation Treatment Outcome unemployment rate
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Zusammenfassung:	: The relationship between global economic indicators and kidney allograft and patient survival is unknown. To investigate possible relationships between the two, we analyzed kidney transplant recipients receiving transplants between January of 1995 and December of 2002 (n = 105 181) in the USA using Cox regression models. We found that: The Dow Jones Industrial Average had a negative association with outcome at one year post‐transplant (HR 1.03 and 1.06, p
ISSN:	0902-0063 1399-0012
DOI:	10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01024.x