MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Patients are willing to receive a worse-quality kidney sooner in order to avoid additional waiting time for transplant, according to a study published online Aug. 19 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Sanjay Mehrota, Ph.D., from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and colleagues used a discrete-choice experiment that presented a deceased donor kidney to 605 patients who are waiting for or have received a kidney transplant. Read more in Physician’s Weekly.