A Qualitative Assessment of Personal and Social Responsibility for Kidney Disease: The Increasing Kidney Disease Awareness Network Transplant Project

摘要

Abstract Introduction Limited qualitative research has explored opinions of kidney disease health care providers regarding racial and ethnic disparities in access to and receipt of kidney transplantation. Methods Key informant interviews were conducted among transplant nephrologists, nephrologists, transplant social workers, and transplant coordinators to determine barriers to transplantation among African Americans compared to whites with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Analysis: Thirty-eigh.