2023
Physician Preferences when Selecting Candidates for Lower-Quality Kidney Offers
Sepulveda J, Mehrotra S, Yang J, Schantz K, Becker Y, Formica R, Ladner D, Kaufman D, Friedewald J. Physician Preferences when Selecting Candidates for Lower-Quality Kidney Offers. Clinical Journal Of The American Society Of Nephrology 2023, 18: 1599-1609. PMID: 37729938, PMCID: PMC10723918, DOI: 10.2215/cjn.0000000000000302.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCold ischemia timePanel reactive antibodyIschemia timeMarginal kidneysEjection fractionReactive antibodiesRecipient characteristicsPost-transplant survival scoreSignificant associationKidney Donor Profile IndexKarnofsky performance scoreSerum creatinine levelsHistory of diabetesLow-quality kidneysHLA mismatchesPerformance statusRecipient ageCreatinine levelsDiabetes statusHLA matchCirculatory deathKidney qualityYounger recipientsDonor ageDiscrete choice experiment
2010
Accepting a donor kidney: an evaluation of patients’ and transplant surgeons’ priorities
Solomon DA, Rabidou N, Kulkarni S, Formica R, Fraenkel L. Accepting a donor kidney: an evaluation of patients’ and transplant surgeons’ priorities. Clinical Transplantation 2010, 25: 786-793. PMID: 20964716, PMCID: PMC4846340, DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01342.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsKidney qualityDonor kidneysTransplant surgeonsEvaluation of patientsMann-Whitney U testTransplant outcomesPatient characteristicsSpearman correlation coefficientPatient prioritiesWaiting listPatientsAvailable kidneysClinical practiceSurgeon rankingsKidneyU testSurgeonsCategorical variablesPatient autonomyComputer surveyCorrelation coefficientTransplantationFactorsGreat value