3 results match your criteria: "Duke University School of Medicine. Electronic address: lisa.mcelroy@duke.edu.[Affiliation]"

Background: The Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was developed to improve equity and utility in organ allocation. We examine the effect of this change on kidney graft distribution and survival.

Methods: UNOS data was used to identify first-time adult recipients of a deceased donor kidney-alone transplant pre-KAS (Jan 2012-Dec 2014, n = 26,612) and post-KAS (Jan 2015-Dec 2017, n = 30,701), as well as grafts recovered Jan 2012-Jun 2019.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF