A Comparative Effectiveness Analysis of Early Steroid Withdrawal in Black Kidney Transplant Recipients.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

There is continued debate whether early steroid withdrawal is safe to use in high-immunologic risk patients, such as blacks. The goal of this study was to use comparative effectiveness methodology to elucidate the safety of early steroid withdrawal in blacks with kidney transplants.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

Our cohort study used United Network of Organ Sharing data including all adult black kidney transplant recipients from 2000 to 2009 followed through 2014. Propensity score matching was used to equalize baseline risk between continued steroid and early steroid withdrawal groups. Interaction terms were used to assess if the effect of early steroid withdrawal on outcomes varied by baseline and post-transplant factors. Of 26,582

SUBMITTER: Taber DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5220657 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature