Indigenous people less likely to be waitlisted for a kidney transplant

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There’s a gap in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are waitlisted for a kidney transplant.

A study has found while eight per cent of non-Indigenous dialysis patients were waitlisted, just two per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients were.

In most cases it was because of an incomplete work‐up, because they were awaiting transplant assessment or because their eligibility had not yet been assessed.

Guest/s

• Professor Jacqui Hughes, a kidney specialist at Flinders University and one of the leaders of the National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce
• Professor Stephen McDonald, a specialist in the epidemiology of kidney disease at The University of Adelaide

References

• Am I on the list? Clinician‐reported factors for kidney transplantation non‐waitlisting among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney failure: a cross‐sectional study