Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess Deaths Among Persons With Kidney Failure During the COVID-19 Pandemic, March-July 2020

Am J Kidney Dis. 2021 May;77(5):827-829. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.02.003. Epub 2021 Feb 11.

Authors

Daeho Kim¹, Yoojin Lee², Rebecca Thorsness², Kevin H Nguyen², Shailender Swaminathan³, Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez², Amal N Trivedi³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University, Providence RI. Electronic address: Daeho_Kim@brown.edu.
² Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University, Providence RI.
³ Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University, Providence RI; Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / mortality
COVID-19* / therapy
Cause of Death
Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data*
Health Status Disparities
Healthcare Disparities / ethnology
Humans
Mortality / ethnology*
Renal Insufficiency* / mortality
Renal Insufficiency* / therapy
SARS-CoV-2
Social Determinants of Health / ethnology*
United States / epidemiology

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