Standardized Transplantation Referral Ratio to Assess Performance of Transplant Referral among Dialysis Facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

For patients with ESRD, referral from a dialysis facility to a transplant center for evaluation is an important step toward kidney transplantation. However, a standardized measure for assessing clinical performance of dialysis facilities transplant access is lacking. We describe methodology for a new dialysis facility measure: the Standardized Transplantation Referral Ratio.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

Transplant referral data from 8308 patients with incident ESRD within 249 dialysis facilities in the United States state of Georgia were linked with US Renal Data System data from January of 2008 to December of 2011, with follow-up through December of 2012. Facility-level expected referrals were computed from a two-stage Cox proporti

SUBMITTER: Paul S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967424 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature