Improving Access to Kidney Transplantation: Perspectives From Dialysis and Transplant Staff in the Southeastern United States.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

There are many barriers to meeting the goal of increasing kidney transplants in the United States. It is important to understand dialysis and transplant center providers' existing practices and identified barriers to increasing the number of dialysis patients who are evaluated for and get wait-listed for a transplant.

Study design

Cross-sectional survey of dialysis unit and transplant center staff in End Stage Renal Disease Network 6 (Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina).

Setting & participants

Ninety-one transplant staff from all 9 transplant centers in the region and 421 dialysis staff from 421 facilities responded to the survey.

Predictors

N/A.

Outcome

Provider perceptions of barriers faced by patients in the kidney transplan

SUBMITTER: Browne T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8515088 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature