Disparities in Discussions about Kidney Replacement Therapy in CKD Care

Tyler M Barrett; Clemontina A Davenport; Patti L Ephraim; Sarah Peskoe; Dinushika Mohottige; Nicole DePasquale; Lisa McElroy; L Ebony Boulware

doi:10.34067/KID.0004752021

Disparities in Discussions about Kidney Replacement Therapy in CKD Care

Kidney360. 2021 Oct 22;3(1):158-163. doi: 10.34067/KID.0004752021. eCollection 2022 Jan 27.

Authors

Tyler M Barrett¹, Clemontina A Davenport², Patti L Ephraim^{3

4}, Sarah Peskoe², Dinushika Mohottige^{1

5}, Nicole DePasquale¹, Lisa McElroy^{1

6}, L Ebony Boulware¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
² Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Division of Nephrology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
⁶ Division of Abdominal Transplant, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.

Abstract

Participants who identified as female and Black reported more thorough discussions of dialysis than transplant.Participants with low incomes and education reported more thorough discussions of dialysis than transplant.

Keywords: chronic kidney disease; clinical nephrology; dialysis; renal replacement therapy; transplant.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Renal Dialysis*
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic* / epidemiology
Renal Replacement Therapy

Grants and funding

K01 AG070284/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States