Making house calls increases living donor inquiries and evaluations for blacks on the kidney transplant waiting list.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Blacks receive live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) less often than patients of all other races. We evaluated the effectiveness of educational interventions in removing barriers to LDKT for blacks.

Methods

Patients were randomized to three interventions in which health educator(s) delivered an intervention to (a) the patient and his/her guests in the patient's home (house calls [HC], n=54), (b) clusters of patients and their guests in the transplant center (group based [GB], n=49), and (c) the individual patient alone in the transplant center (individual counseling [IC], n=49).

Results

At the 2-year endpoint, 15% (n=8), 8% (n=4), and 6% (n=3) of HC, GB, and IC patients, respectively, received LDKT (P=0.30). Patients in the HC group were more likely than pati

SUBMITTER: Rodrigue JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4218873 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature