Persistent Disparities in Preemptive Kidney Transplantation

Tanjala S Purnell^{1

2

3}, Deidra C Crews^{4

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery and.
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; and.
³ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Editorial

Tanjala S Purnell et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019.

. 2019 Oct 7;14(10):1430-1431.

doi: 10.2215/CJN.09800819. Epub 2019 Sep 26.

Tanjala S Purnell^{1

2

3}, Deidra C Crews^{4

3}

¹ Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery and.
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; and.
³ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Keywords: disparities; graft survival; insurance; kidney transplantation; living donors; preemptive transplantation; race/ethnicity.

Comment on

Trends in Disparities in Preemptive Kidney Transplantation in the United States.
King KL, Husain SA, Jin Z, Brennan C, Mohan S. King KL, et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Oct 7;14(10):1500-1511. doi: 10.2215/CJN.03140319. Epub 2019 Sep 26. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019. PMID: 31413065 Free PMC article.

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