Association of Social Risk Factors With Home Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Rates in Dialysis Facilities

Rebecca Thorsness; Virginia Wang; Rachel E Patzer; Kelsey Drewry; Vincent Mor; Momotazur Rahman; Amal N Trivedi

doi:10.1001/jama.2021.18372

Association of Social Risk Factors With Home Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Rates in Dialysis Facilities

JAMA. 2021 Dec 14;326(22):2323-2325. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.18372.

Authors

Rebecca Thorsness¹, Virginia Wang², Rachel E Patzer³, Kelsey Drewry⁴, Vincent Mor¹, Momotazur Rahman¹, Amal N Trivedi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Service, Policy, and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island.
² Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
³ Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Abstract

This study examines rates of home dialysis and transplant at dialysis facilities that serve patients with high social risk to understand how they fare under the End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Ambulatory Care Facilities / economics
Health Services Accessibility
Hemodialysis, Home / economics
Hemodialysis, Home / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy*
Kidney Transplantation / statistics & numerical data*
Medicaid
Risk Factors
Socioeconomic Factors*
United States

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding