Rates of Kidney Transplantation From Living and Deceased Donors for Blacks and Whites in the United States, 1998 to 2011

JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Oct;175(10):1716-8. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.4530.

Authors

Akshay Sood¹, Newaj M Abdullah², Firas Abdollah², Marwan S Abouljoud³, Quoc-Dien Trinh⁴, Mani Menon², Jesse D Sammon¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Outcomes Research, Analytics, and Evaluation, Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan2Center of Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Center for Outcomes Research, Analytics, and Evaluation, Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan.
³ Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan.
⁴ Center of Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 26322565
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.4530

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Black People / statistics & numerical data
Black or African American
Healthcare Disparities* / ethnology
Healthcare Disparities* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Incidence
Kidney Failure, Chronic* / ethnology
Kidney Failure, Chronic* / surgery
Kidney Transplantation* / methods
Kidney Transplantation* / statistics & numerical data
Living Donors / statistics & numerical data
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Quality Improvement
United States / epidemiology
White People / statistics & numerical data

Grants and funding

234-2005-370011C/PHS HHS/United States