Consistency of racial variation in medical outcomes among publicly and privately insured living kidney donors.

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Published in Transplantation on February 15, 2014

Authors

Krista L Lentine1, Mark A Schnitzler, Huiling Xiao, David Axelrod, Amit X Garg, Janet E Tuttle-Newhall, Daniel C Brennan, Dorry L Segev

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Center for Outcomes Research, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 2 Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 3 Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH. 4 Division of Nephrology, Western University, London, Canada. 5 Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 6 Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 7 Address correspondence to: Krista L. Lentine, M.D., Ph.D., Saint Louis University Center for Outcomes Research, Salus Center 4th Floor, 3545 Lafayette Ave, St. Louis, MO 63104.

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