Variation in Dialysis Facility Referral for Kidney Transplantation Among Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease in Georgia
| Autor: | Jenna Krisher, Rachel E. Patzer, Laura L. Mulloy, Jennifer C. Gander, Laura C. Plantinga, Leighann Sauls, Stephen O. Pastan, Sudeshna Paul, Eric M. Gibney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Georgia Referral Adolescent Waiting Lists medicine.medical_treatment Ambulatory Care Facilities End stage renal disease Cohort Studies Young Adult Renal Dialysis medicine Humans Intensive care medicine Poverty Referral and Consultation Dialysis Kidney transplantation Aged business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Kidney Transplantation Transplantation Emergency medicine Cohort Kidney Failure Chronic Female Hemodialysis business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | JAMA. 314(6) |
| ISSN: | 1538-3598 |
| Popis: | Dialysis facilities in the United States are required to educate patients with end-stage renal disease about all treatment options, including kidney transplantation. Patients receiving dialysis typically require a referral for kidney transplant evaluation at a transplant center from a dialysis facility to start the transplantation process, but the proportion of patients referred for transplantation is unknown.To describe variation in dialysis facility-level referral for kidney transplant evaluation and factors associated with referral among patients initiating dialysis in Georgia, the US state with the lowest kidney transplantation rates.Examination of United States Renal Data System data from a cohort of 15,279 incident, adult (18-69 years) patients with end-stage renal disease from 308 Georgia dialysis facilities from January 2005 to September 2011, followed up through September 2012, linked to kidney transplant referral data collected from adult transplant centers in Georgia in the same period.Referral for kidney transplant evaluation within 1 year of starting dialysis at any of the 3 Georgia transplant centers was the primary outcome; placement on the deceased donor waiting list was also examined.The median within-facility percentage of patients referred within 1 year of starting dialysis was 24.4% (interquartile range, 16.7%-33.3%) and varied from 0% to 75.0%. Facilities in the lowest tertile of referral (19.2%) were more likely to treat patients living in high-poverty neighborhoods (absolute difference, 21.8% [95% CI, 14.1%-29.4%]), had a higher patient to social worker ratio (difference, 22.5 [95% CI, 9.7-35.2]), and were more likely nonprofit (difference, 17.6% [95% CI, 7.7%-27.4%]) compared with facilities in the highest tertile of referral (31.3%). In multivariable, multilevel analyses, factors associated with lower referral for transplantation, such as older age, white race, and nonprofit facility status, were not always consistent with the factors associated with lower waitlisting.In Georgia overall, a limited proportion of patients treated with dialysis were referred for kidney transplant evaluation between 2005 and 2011, but there was substantial variability in referral among facilities. Variables associated with referral were not always associated with waitlisting, suggesting that different factors may account for disparities in referral. |
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