Overcoming Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in the USA: the Promise of Academic and Community Stakeholder Partnerships

This article provides a systematic review of existing academic-community partnerships designed to address disparities in LDKT for adult populations in the USA. Few academic-community partnerships exist that were designed to specifically address LDKT disparities. Among the 7 existing partnerships identified within this review, the majority were developed as part of grant-funded interventions targeting healthcare access, health education, and health attitudes and behaviors as barriers to LDKT.SummaryFuture work is needed to identify practical methods for expanding LDKT partnerships among health equity researchers, healthcare practitioners, transplant centers, and other key stakeholders, including patients, families, faith-based leaders, policy makers, and medically underserved communities.

Source: Current Transplantation Reports - May 22, 2019 Category: Transplant Surgery Source Type: research