Tag: transplant waitlists

Education of patients and parents imperative for the future of paediatric...

“You have to have a balanced approach.” This was the core message from Vincent Rowe (University of California Los Angeles Health, Los Angeles, USA)...

Some US kidney waitlist candidates passed over for less urgent candidates

A new study by Columbia University Irving Medical Centre (CUIMC; New York, USA) researchers has found that some US centres routinely skip their highest-ranking...

Study finds creatinine-based eGFR equation could reduce racial differences in transplant...

In light of recent shifts away from race-based algorithms in medicine—such as the adjustment for Black race in equations that estimate patients’ kidney function—new...