The Effect of Patients' Preferences on Racial Differences in Access to Renal Transplantation
Open Access
- 25 November 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 341 (22) , 1661-1669
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199911253412206
Abstract
In the United States, black patients undergo renal transplantation less often than white patients, but few studies have directly assessed the association between race and patients' preferences with respect to transplantation.Keywords
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