Awareness of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation among Health Care Providers in Dialysis Facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Despite the important role that health care providers at dialysis facilities have in reducing racial disparities in access to kidney transplantation in the United States, little is known about provider awareness of these disparities. We aimed to evaluate health care providers' awareness of racial disparities in kidney transplant waitlisting and identify factors associated with awareness.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of a survey of providers from low-waitlisting dialysis facilities (n=655) across all 18 ESRD networks administered in 2016 in the United States merged with 2014 US Renal Data System and 2014 US Census data. Awareness of national racial disparity in waitlisting was defined as

SUBMITTER: Kim JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5969478 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature