Trends in Disparities in Preemptive Kidney Transplantation in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Long wait times for deceased donor kidneys and low rates of preemptive wait-listing have limited preemptive transplantation in the United States. We aimed to assess trends in preemptive deceased donor transplantation with the introduction of the new Kidney Allocation System (KAS) in 2014 and identify whether key disparities in preemptive transplantation have changed.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

We identified adult deceased donor kidney transplant recipients in the United States from 2000 to 2018 using the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Preemptive transplantation was defined as no dialysis before transplant. Associations between recipient, donor, transplant, and policy era characteristics and preemptive transplantatio

SUBMITTER: King KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6777592 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature