Regional Variation in Early Kidney Transplant Access Across Dialysis Facilities in 4 US Regions.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pretransplant access varies, but whether pretransplant steps vary regionally across dialysis facilities remains unclear.

Methods

We identified 62,467 adults (aged 18-80 years) referred from 2471 dialysis facilities and 27,171 initiating transplant evaluation from 2188 facilities in New England, New York, Southeast, and Ohio River Valley within the Early Steps to Transplant Access Registry (E-STAR) (January 1, 2015-December 31, 2023), linked with US Renal Data System (USRDS) and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data, followed-up through March 2, 2024. We examined dialysis facility-level proportions of evaluation start within 6 months of referral and waitlisting within 1 year of evaluation start. Descriptive statistics using analysis of variance an

SUBMITTER: Buford J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12828506 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature