Linguistic Isolation and Access to the Active Kidney Transplant Waiting List in the United States | Zendy

Efrain Talamantes | Zendy; Keith C. Norris | Zendy; Carol M. Mangione | Zendy; Gerardo Moreno | Zendy; Amy D. Waterman | Zendy; John Devin Peipert | Zendy; Suphamai Bunnapradist | Zendy; Edmund Huang | Zendy

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Linguistic Isolation and Access to the Active Kidney Transplant Waiting List in the United States

Author(s) -

Efrain Talamantes,

Keith C. Norris,

Carol M. Mangione,

Gerardo Moreno,

Amy D. Waterman,

John Devin Peipert,

Suphamai Bunnapradist,

Edmund Huang

Publication year - 2017

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.07150716

Subject(s) - interquartile range , medicine , cumulative incidence , transplantation , population , incidence (geometry) , demography , kidney transplantation , socioeconomic status , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics

Waitlist inactivity is a barrier to transplantation, because inactive candidates cannot receive deceased donor organ offers. We hypothesized that temporarily inactive kidney transplant candidates living in linguistically isolated communities would be less likely to achieve active waitlist status.

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