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Editorial
. 2014 Jan;20(1):4-6.
doi: 10.1002/lt.23801.

Racial and economic disparities in transplant outcomes: the not-so-hidden morbidities

Eyal Shemesh  1 , Lawrence C Kleinman, Elizabeth A Howell, Rachel Annunziato
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Editorial

Racial and economic disparities in transplant outcomes: the not-so-hidden morbidities

Eyal Shemesh et al. Liver Transpl. 2014 Jan.
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If Race/ethnicity is a predictor of socioeconomic status (SES), then even if both race and SES are independent predictors of outcomes, fully adjusting for SES may falsely reduce the estimate of the magnitude of race as a predictor of outcomes.
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