{"id":5686,"date":"2022-10-29T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T17:10:14","slug":"black-patients-odds-of-kidney-transplant-referral-may-have-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/10\/29\/black-patients-odds-of-kidney-transplant-referral-may-have-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Patients\u2019 Odds of Kidney Transplant Referral May Have Improved"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5686\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Despite being markedly overrepresented among patients on dialysis, Black patients are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.renalandurologynews.com\/home\/news\/nephrology\/end-stage-renal-disease\/black-vs-white-racial-disparities-in-childhood-onset-kidney-failure-are-lifelong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less likely to be referred for a kidney transplant<\/a>. Now, a recently implemented policy change may improve Black patients\u2019 odds of a kidney transplant referral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2021, the American Society of Nephrology-National Kidney Foundation (ASN-NKF) Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases recommended that the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) creatinine equation be altered to eliminate the race variable to estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in all laboratories. It also recommended more widespread use of cystatin C. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renalandurologynews.com\/home\/news\/nephrology\/transplantation\/black-patients-odds-of-kidney-transplant-referral-may-have-improved\/\">Read the full article<\/a> in Renal &amp; Urology News.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5686\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Despite being markedly overrepresented among patients on dialysis, Black patients are&nbsp;less likely to be referred for a kidney transplant. Now, a recently implemented policy change may improve Black patients\u2019 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/10\/29\/black-patients-odds-of-kidney-transplant-referral-may-have-improved\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Patients\u2019 Odds of Kidney Transplant Referral May Have Improved&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":4085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,368,2],"tags":[1219],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1266","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}