Financial Feasibility Analysis of a Culturally and Linguistically Competent Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2006, Northwestern Medicine implemented a culturally targeted and linguistically congruent Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program (HKTP). The HKTP has been associated with a reduction in Hispanic/Latino disparities in live donor kidney transplantation. This article assessed the financial feasibility of implementing the HKTP intervention at 2 other transplant centers.

Methods

We examined the impact of the HKTP on staffing costs compared with the total transplant center costs using data from monthly time studies conducted among transplant staff involved in the HKTP. Time studies were conducted during the HKTP preimplementation (2016) and implementation (2017) phases. Labor costs were estimated using data from the time studies and mean salaries from the Department of

SUBMITTER: Wang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9583865 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature