Racial Disparities in Pediatric Access to Kidney Transplantation: Does Socioeconomic Status Play a Role?

Racial disparities persist in access to renal transplantation in the United States, but the degree to which patient and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) impacts racial disparities in deceased donor renal transplantation access has not been examined in the pediatric and adolescent end‐stage re...

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Veröffentlicht in:American journal of transplantation 2012-02, Vol.12 (2), p.369-378
Hauptverfasser: Patzer, R. E., Amaral, S., Klein, M., Kutner, N., Perryman, J. P., Gazmararian, J. A., McClellan, W. M.
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Zusammenfassung:Racial disparities persist in access to renal transplantation in the United States, but the degree to which patient and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) impacts racial disparities in deceased donor renal transplantation access has not been examined in the pediatric and adolescent end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) population. We examined the interplay of race and SES in a population‐based cohort of all incident pediatric ESRD patients
ISSN:1600-6135
1600-6143
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03888.x