American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 51, Issue 5 , Pages 811-818, May 2008

Educational Level as a Determinant of Access to and Outcomes After Kidney Transplantation in the United States

  • Elke S. Schaeffner, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Charité Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Jyotsna Mehta, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, MD, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Department of Medicine, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer, MD, ScD, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1620 Tremont St, Ste 3030, Boston, MA 02120.

Received 20 August 2007; accepted 16 January 2008. published online 04 April 2008.

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 Originally published online as doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2008.01.019 on April 2, 2008.Because an author of this manuscript is an editor for AJKD, the peer-review and decision-making processes were handled entirely by an Associate Editor (Donald Hricik, MD, University Hospitals of Cleveland) who served as Acting Editor-in-Chief. Details of the journal's procedures for potential editor conflicts are given in the Editorial Policies section of the AJKD website.

PII: S0272-6386(08)00161-3

doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2008.01.019

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