Effectiveness of informational decision aids and a live donor financial assistance program on pursuit of live kidney transplants in African American hemodialysis patients

Effectiveness of informational decision aids and a live donor financial assistance program on pursuit of live kidney transplants in African American hemodialysis patients

Abstract Background African Americans have persistently poor access to living donor kidney transplants (LDKT). We conducted a small randomized trial to provide preliminary evidence of the effect of informational decision support and donor financial assistance interventions on African American hemodi...

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Main Authors: L. Ebony Boulware, Patti L. Ephraim, Jessica Ameling, LaPricia Lewis-Boyer, Hamid Rabb, Raquel C. Greer, Deidra C. Crews, Bernard G. Jaar, Priscilla Auguste, Tanjala S. Purnell, Julio A. Lamprea-Monteleagre, Tope Olufade, Luis Gimenez, Courtney Cook, Tiffany Campbell, Ashley Woodall, Hema Ramamurthi, Cleomontina A. Davenport, Kingshuk Roy Choudhury, Matthew R. Weir, Donna S. Hanes, Nae-Yuh Wang, Helene Vilme, Neil R. Powe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Nephrology
Subjects:
Decision aid
End stage renal disease
Financial support
Live donor kidney transplant
Race disparities
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12882-018-0901-x

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