Trial reportTransplantation2014
Making house calls increases living donor inquiries and evaluations for blacks on the kidney transplant waiting list.
Trial report in Transplantation, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 69 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Reducing Barriers in Access to Kidney Transplantation: Implementing the "Explore Transplant" Education Program to Increase Patient Knowledge and to Facilitate Informed Decision Making- A Pilot Study
Increasing Equity in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Through Effective Patient-Provider Communication
Who cites it
69 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions for improving health literacy in people with chronic kidney disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing solid organ donor registration.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Health Disparities in Kidney Transplantation for African Americans.American journal of nephrology · 2017Pooled it
- The Multidisciplinary Support To Access living donor Kidney Transplant (MuST AKT) intervention: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of a culturally competent care intervention in reducing disparities in Hispanic live donor kidney transplantation: A hybrid trial.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022Trial
- A distance-based living donor kidney education program for Black wait-list candidates: A feasibility randomized trial.Clinical transplantation · 2021Trial
- Destination Transplant: Protocol for a Parallel-group Randomized Trial of an Educational Intervention to Increase Kidney Transplant Among Black People on the Transplant Waiting List.Transplantation direct · 2021Trial
- Your Path to Transplant: A randomized controlled trial of a tailored expert system intervention to increase knowledge, attitudes, and pursuit of kidney transplant.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021Trial
- Direct Delivery of Kidney Transplant Education to Black and Low-Income Patients Receiving Dialysis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2019Trial
- Measurement Characteristics of the Knowledge Assessment of Renal Transplantation.Transplantation · 2019Trial
- Trends in African Americans' Attitudes and Behaviors About Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) · 2018Trial
- Effectiveness of informational decision aids and a live donor financial assistance program on pursuit of live kidney transplants in African American hemodialysis patients.BMC nephrology · 2018Trial
- A Randomized Trial to Reduce Disparities in Referral for Transplant Evaluation.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2017Trial
- Explore Transplant at Home: a randomized control trial of an educational intervention to increase transplant knowledge for Black and White socioeconomically disadvantaged dialysis patients.BMC nephrology · 2015Trial
- Gaps in Dialysis Staff Knowledge of the Kidney Transplantation Process.Kidney international reports · 2026Article
- Transplant House Calls Plus Peer Mentorship: Assessing Impact on Living Donor Kidney Transplant Access and Patient-Reported Outcomes for Black Patients.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Developing and Validating Machine Learning-Driven Risk Indices to Predict Patient Dropout During Referral, Evaluation, and Waitlisting for Kidney Transplant.Clinical transplantation · 2025Article
- Policy innovations to advance equity in solid organ transplantation.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Review
- Life on the Line: Prioritizing Equity in Kidney Transplantation for Populations Marginalized by Race and Ethnicity.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2025Article
- Determining Predictors of Actual Living Kidney Donation Based on Potential Donor Characteristics.Clinical transplantation · 2024Article
9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundBlacks receive live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) less often than patients of all other races. We evaluated the effectiveness of educational interventions in removing barriers to LDKT for blacks.
methodsPatients were randomized to three interventions in which health educator(s) delivered an intervention to (a) the patient and his/her guests in the patient's home (house calls [HC], n=54), (b) clusters of patients and their guests in the transplant center (group based [GB], n=49), and (c) the individual patient alone in the transplant center (individual counseling [IC], n=49).
resultsAt the 2-year endpoint, 15% (n=8), 8% (n=4), and 6% (n=3) of HC, GB, and IC patients, respectively, received LDKT (P=0.30). Patients in the HC group were more likely than patients in the GB and IC groups to have at least one donor inquiry (82% vs. 61% vs. 47%, P=0.001) and evaluation (65% vs. 39% vs. 27%, P<0.001). Patients in the HC group also were more likely to have higher knowledge, fewer concerns, and higher willingness to talk to others about donation 6 weeks after intervention.
conclusionsThese findings underscore the importance of including the patient's social network in LDKT education and the potential of the HC intervention to reduce racial disparity in LDKT rates.
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