Will Universal Access to Health Care Mean Equitable Access to Kidney Transplantation?
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Health literacy and access to kidney transplantation.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES 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. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS We enrolled 62 Black and White maintenance hemodialysis patients aged 18 to 75. W...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.03000320