Contemporary outcomes of the pediatric kidney transplant program in Johannesburg, South Africa, between 2004 and 2017: Better or not—And which way forward?

Contemporary outcomes of the pediatric kidney transplant program in Johannesburg, South Africa, between 2004 and 2017: Better or not—And which way forward?

Background Outcomes for the pediatric kidney transplant program in Johannesburg (1984‐2003) were found to be suboptimal. In this study, we compared (a) early (era 1:1984‐2003) to contemporary (era 2:2004‐2017) outcomes and (b) compared contemporary outcomes between the public and private sector hosp...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Pediatric transplantation 2020-03, Vol.24 (2), p.e13644-n/a, Article 13644
Hauptverfasser: Mshumpela, Cleopatra N., Loveland, Jerome, Botha, Rene, Britz, Russel, Levy, Cecil, Maher, Heather, Withers, Aletha, Fabian, June, Botha, Jean
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Etiology
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Graft Survival
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
kidney
Kidney transplantation
Kidney Transplantation - mortality
Kidney Transplantation - standards
Kidney Transplantation - trends
Kidney transplants
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Male
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
pediatric
Pediatrics
Quality Improvement - trends
Quality Indicators, Health Care - trends
recipient and graft survival
Retrospective Studies
Science & Technology
South Africa
South Africa - epidemiology
Survival
Tissue and Organ Procurement - organization & administration
Transplantation
Transplants & implants
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:Background Outcomes for the pediatric kidney transplant program in Johannesburg (1984‐2003) were found to be suboptimal. In this study, we compared (a) early (era 1:1984‐2003) to contemporary (era 2:2004‐2017) outcomes and (b) compared contemporary outcomes between the public and private sector hospitals in our program. Methods We conducted a retrospective record review of all pediatric (
ISSN:1397-3142
1399-3046
DOI:10.1111/petr.13644