Becker's Healthcare April 22, 2024
Roughly 14,280 Black kidney transplant candidates moved up the waitlist after race was eliminated from the candidate criteria, ABC News reported April 22.
To calculate a person’s location on the waitlist, an algorithm uses metrics such as kidney function, age, sex, body weight and race. The inclusion of race was based on outdated assumptions that Black patients had differences in kidney function compared to other groups, according to the report. The race-based score may have kept Black patients lower on the waitlist.
In 2020, the National Kidney Foundation and American Society of Nephrology established a task force to reassess how race is...
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