Impact of public versus non public insurance on hispanic kidney transplant outcomes using UNOS database.

ABSTRACT: Disparities in access to care and transplantation outcomes, including prolonged waitlist times and reduced living donor transplantation rates, are well-documented in Hispanic kidney transplant patients. While post-transplant graft and patient survival rates are generally comparable to those of non-Hispanic white patients, variability within the Hispanic population is driven by socioeconomic and clinical factors. Insurance type may be a crucial determinant of both access to transplantation and post-transplantation outcomes, warranting a focused study of its impact within this population. We used the OPTN/UNOS database to identify Hispanic kidney-only transplant recipients in the United States between 2015 and 2019. We categorized patients by insurance type to public versus non-public insura

SUBMITTER: Thongprayoon C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11811044 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature