1. Ethical considerations regarding disparities pertaining to kidney transplant patients.
- Author
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Yost SE, Srinivas T, and Kaplan B
- Subjects
- Biomedical Research economics, Biomedical Research methods, Ethnicity statistics & numerical data, Health Services Accessibility ethics, Healthcare Disparities ethnology, Humans, Kidney Failure, Chronic ethnology, Patient Education as Topic ethics, Racial Groups statistics & numerical data, Referral and Consultation ethics, United States, Healthcare Disparities ethics, Kidney Failure, Chronic surgery, Kidney Transplantation ethics
- Abstract
Racial and ethnic disparities exist throughout the US health-care system, including in the field of solid-organ transplant. There are disparities in access to health care, health outcomes, and access to transplant centers. Addressing this issue requires equity in pretransplant care, increased education and referral throughout the transplant process, and research funds targeted to the study of problems pertinent to transplantation in certain patient populations.
- Published
- 2011
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