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The Kidney Transplant Equity Index: Improving Racial and Ethnic Minority Access to Transplantation
Annals of Surgery ( IF 9 ) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 , DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000005549
Aaron M Delman 1 , Kevin M Turner 1 , Latifa S Silski 1, 2 , Ralph C Quillin 1, 2 , Martha Estrada 1, 2 , Kristina Lemon 1, 2 , Madison C Cuffy 1, 2 , Shimul A Shah 1, 2
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Objectives: 

To develop a scalable metric which quantifies kidney transplant (KT) centers’ performance providing equitable access to KT for minority patients, based on the individualized prelisting prevalence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

Background: 

Racial and ethnic disparities for access to transplant in patients with ESRD are well described; however, variation in care among KT centers remains unknown. Furthermore, no mechanism exists that quantifies how well a KT center provides equitable access to KT for minority patients with ESRD.

Methods: 

From 2013 to 2018, custom datasets from the United States Renal Data System and United Network for Organ Sharing were merged to calculate the Kidney Transplant Equity Index (KTEI), defined as the number of minority patients transplanted at a center relative to the prevalence of minority patients with ESRD in each center’s health service area. Markers of socioeconomic status and recipient outcomes were compared between high and low KTEI centers.

Results: 

A total of 249 transplant centers performed 111,959 KTs relative to 475,914 nontransplanted patients with ESRD. High KTEI centers performed more KTs for Black (105.5 vs 24, P<0.001), Hispanic (55.5 vs 7, P<0.001), and American Indian (1.0 vs 0.0, P<0.001) patients than low KTEI centers. In addition, high KTEI centers transplanted more patients with higher unemployment (52 vs 44, P<0.001), worse social deprivation (53 vs 46, P<0.001), and lower educational attainment (52 vs 43, P<0.001). While providing increased access to transplant for minority and low socioeconomic status populations, high KTEI centers had improved patient survival (hazard ratio: 0.86, 95% confidence interval: 0.77–0.95).

Conclusions: 

The KTEI is the first metric to quantify minority access to KT incorporating the prelisting ESRD prevalence individualized to transplant centers. KTEIs uncover significant national variation in transplant practices and identify highly equitable centers. This novel metric should be used to disseminate best practices for minority and low socioeconomic patients with ESRD.



中文翻译:

肾移植公平指数:改善种族和少数族裔获得移植的机会

目标: 

根据终末期肾病 (ESRD) 的个体化预上市患病率,开发一个可扩展的指标,量化肾移植 (KT) 中心的绩效,为少数患者提供公平获得 KT 的机会。

背景: 

对 ESRD 患者进行移植的种族和民族差异进行了详细描述;然而,KT 中心之间的护理差异仍然未知。此外,不存在量化 KT 中心为少数 ESRD 患者提供公平获得 KT 的能力的机制。

方法: 

从 2013 年到 2018 年,来自美国肾脏数据系统和器官共享联合网络的自定义数据集被合并以计算肾脏移植公平指数(KTEI),定义为在中心移植的少数民族患者数量与少数民族患病率的关系每个中心卫生服务区的 ESRD 患者。在高和低 KTEI 中心之间比较了社会经济地位和接受者结果的标志。

结果: 

相对于 475,914 名非移植的 ESRD 患者,共有 249 个移植中心进行了 111,959 次 KT。与低KTEI 中心相比,高 KTEI 中心对黑人(105.5 比 24,P <0.001)、西班牙裔(55.5 比 7,P <0.001)和美洲印第安人(1.0 比 0.0,P <0.001)患者进行更多的 KT。此外,高 KTEI 中心移植的患者更多,失业率较高(52 比 44,P <0.001),社会剥夺更严重(53 比 46,P <0.001),教育程度较低(52 比 43,P<0.001)。在为少数民族和社会经济地位低的人群提供更多的移植机会的同时,高 KTEI 中心提高了患者的生存率(风险比:0.86,95% 置信区间:0.77-0.95)。

结论: 

KTEI 是第一个量化少数群体获得 KT 的指标,其中包含针对移植中心的个体化预先列出的 ESRD 患病率。KTEI 揭示了移植实践的重大国家差异,并确定了高度公平的中心。这个新的指标应该被用来传播少数和低社会经济地位的 ESRD 患者的最佳实践。

更新日期:2022-08-16
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