Using Administrative Health Care Databases to Identify Patients With End-Stage Kidney Disease With No Recorded Contraindication to Receiving a Kidney Transplant.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Administrative health care databases can be efficiently analyzed to describe the degree to which patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) have access to kidney transplantation. Measures of access to transplantation are better represented when restricting to only those patients eligible to receive a kidney transplant. The way administrative data can be used to assess kidney transplant eligibility in the absence of clinical data has not been well described.

Objective

To demonstrate a method that uses administrative health care databases to identify patients with ESKD who have no recorded contraindication to receiving a kidney transplant.

Design and setting

Population-based cohort study using linked administrative health care databases in Ontario, Canada.

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9309776 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature