Racial Disparities in Access to Renal Transplantation — Clinically Appropriate or Due to Underuse or Overuse?

Abstract

Racial disparities in rates of renal transplantation stem from differences in clinical characteristics that affect appropriateness as well as from underuse of transplantation among blacks and overuse among whites. Reducing racial disparities will require efforts to distinguish their specific causes and the development of interventions tailored to address them.