Association of U.S. Dialysis Facility Neighborhood Characteristics with Facility-Level Kidney Transplantation
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Association of U.S. Dialysis facility neighborhood characteristics with facility-level kidney transplantation.
BACKGROUND Improving access to optimal healthcare may depend on the attributes of neighborhoods where patients receive healthcare services. We investigated whether the characteristics of dialysis facility neighborhoods--where most patients with end-stage renal disease are treated--were associated with facility-level kidney transplantation. METHODS We examined the association between census tr...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Nephrology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0250-8095,1421-9670
DOI: 10.1159/000365596