Health Literacy and Access to Kidney Transplantation | Zendy

Vanessa Grubbs | Zendy; Steven E. Gregorich | Zendy; Eliseo J. PérezStable | Zendy; Chiyuan Hsu | Zendy

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Health Literacy and Access to Kidney Transplantation

Author(s) -

Vanessa Grubbs,

Steven E. Gregorich,

Eliseo J. PérezStable,

Chiyuan Hsu

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

clinical journal of the american society of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755

H-Index - 151

eISSN - 1555-905X

pISSN - 1555-9041

DOI - 10.2215/cjn.03290708

Subject(s) - medicine , health literacy , hazard ratio , population , referral , kidney transplantation , dialysis , proportional hazards model , hemodialysis , transplantation , confidence interval , family medicine , health care , environmental health , economics , economic growth

Few studies have examined health literacy in patients with end stage kidney disease. We hypothesized that inadequate health literacy in a hemodialysis population is common and is associated with poorer access to kidney transplant wait-lists.

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