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Editorial
. 2022 Apr;17(4):481-483.
doi: 10.2215/CJN.02140222. Epub 2022 Mar 24.

Measuring Disease and Transplant Knowledge among Patients with Advanced CKD: Tools to Increase Access and Advance Equity

Megan A Urbanski  1   2 , Rachel E Patzer  1   2   3   4
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Editorial

Measuring Disease and Transplant Knowledge among Patients with Advanced CKD: Tools to Increase Access and Advance Equity

Megan A Urbanski et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: advanced CKD; equity; kidney transplantation; knowledge; measurement.

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Figure 1.
Example interventions to increase kidney disease and transplant knowledge among individuals and populations. Knowledge Assessment of Renal Transplantation (KART) 2.0 can be applied at each intervention level depicted. (1) At the first level, KART 2.0 can be used by providers in 1:1 or group education programs to assess patient knowledge. (2) At the second level, KART 2.0 is deployed at a practice level and can be used by all providers within a particular clinic. (3) KART 2.0 can be a required preventive intervention and used to assess educational deficits at certain junctures (e.g., annually for patients with late-stage CKD). (4) KART 2.0 can be used to make assessments on a population level to benchmark clinical practices. (5) Finally, at level 5, addressing population-level social determinants of health could have the most effect in improving knowledge.
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