By Natasha Persaud
KDIGO guidelines advise health care providers to refer patients on dialysis with past non-adherence to transplant centers for evaluation as possible kidney transplant candidates, yet not all qualified patients are referred, investigators reported at the 2023 American Transplant Congress in San Diego, California. In some cases, providers delay referral or opt not to refer based on their idiosyncratic and subjective beliefs about patients’ non-adherence.
“We believe most providers at dialysis centers and at transplant centers want all eligible patients referred for kidney transplantation,” Adam S. Wilk, PhD, and Jenny McDonnell, PhD/MPH candidate, of Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia, said in a joint statement to Renal & Urology News. Read more in Renal & Urology News.