Association of Racial Disparities With Access to Kidney Transplant After the Implementation of the New Kidney Allocation System.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Inactive patients on the kidney transplant wait-list have a higher mortality. The implications of this status change on transplant outcomes between racial/ethnic groups are unknown.

Objectives

To determine if activity status changes differ among races/ethnicities and levels of sensitization, and if these differences are associated with transplant probability after implementation of the Kidney Allocation System.

Design, setting, and participants

A multistate model was constructed from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network kidney transplant database (December 4, 2014, to September 8, 2016). The time interval followed Kidney Allocation System implementation and provided at least 1-year follow-up for all patients. The model calculated probabilities

SUBMITTER: Kulkarni S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583835 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature