Publications by authors named "K B Wilkerson"

Importance: In the US, Latine patients disproportionately experience severe psoriasis, limited access to care, and poor disease-related quality of life. However, little is known about psoriasis in this growing US population.

Objectives: To explore Latine patients' perception of their illness and their attitudes toward and experiences with the health care system, treatment, and research.

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In the setting of a learning collaborative, we conducted an international multicenter phase 2 clinical trial testing the hypothesis that nonmyeloablative-related haploidentical bone marrow transplant (BMT) with thiotepa and posttransplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) will result in 2-year event-free survival (no graft failure or death) of at least 80%. A total of 70 participants were evaluable based on the conditioning protocol. Graft failure occurred in 8 of 70 (11.

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Importance: Providing person-centered dermatologic care includes consideration of social risk factors, such as housing instability and unreliable transportation, that may affect clinical management. Patients' perspectives on social risk screening and documentation in dermatology clinics have not yet been evaluated.

Objective: To understand patients' perspectives on social risk screening and documentation in a dermatology clinic.

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The Food and Drug Administration requires contemporaneous controls to compare clinical outcomes for participants receiving experimental gene therapy or gene editing clinical trials. However, developing a contemporaneous cohort of rare diseases requires multiple person-hours. In a single referral center for sickle cell disease, we tested the hypothesis that we could create an automated contemporaneous cohort of children and adults with sickle cell anemia (SCA) to predict mortality.

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