{"id":21647,"date":"2025-03-21T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ices.on.ca\/?post_type=journal_article&#038;p=21647"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:30:38","slug":"defining-referral-for-a-kidney-transplant-evaluation-as-a-quality-indicator","status":"publish","type":"journal_article","link":"https:\/\/www.ices.on.ca\/fr\/publications\/journal-articles\/defining-referral-for-a-kidney-transplant-evaluation-as-a-quality-indicator\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining referral for a kidney transplant evaluation as a quality indicator: a population-based cohort study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background<\/strong> \u2014 Quality indicators are required to identify gaps in care and to improve equitable access to kidney transplants. Referral to a transplant center for an evaluation is the first step toward receiving a kidney transplant, yet widespread reporting on this metric is lacking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective<\/strong> \u2014 The objective was to use administrative health care databases to examine multiple ways to define referral for a kidney transplant evaluation by varying clinical inclusion criteria, definitions for end of follow-up, and statistical methodologies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Design<\/strong> \u2014 This is a population-based cohort study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Setting<\/strong> \u2014 This study linked administrative health care databases in Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patients<\/strong> \u2014 Adults from Ontario, Canada, with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) between April 1, 2017, and March 31, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measurements<\/strong> \u2014 The primary outcome was the 1-year cumulative incidence of kidney transplant referral.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nMethods<\/strong> \u2014 We created several patient cohort definitions, varying patient transplant eligibility by health status (eg, whether patients had a recorded contraindication to transplant). We presented results by advanced CKD status (ie, patients approaching the need for dialysis vs receiving maintenance dialysis) and by method of cohort entry (ie, incident only vs prevalent and incident patients combined), resulting in 12 unique cohorts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong> \u2014 Sample size varied substantially from 414 to 4128 depending on the patient cohort definition, with the largest reduction in cohort size occurring when we restricted to a \u201chealthy\u201d (eg, no evidence of cardiovascular disease) group of patients. The 1-year cumulative incidence of transplant referral varied widely across cohorts. For example, in the incident maintenance dialysis population, the cumulative incidence varied more than 2-fold from 16.3% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 15.0%-17.7%) using our most inclusive cohort definition to 40.0% (95% CI = 36.0%-44.5%) using our most restrictive \u201chealthy\u201d cohort of patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Limitations<\/strong> \u2014 Administrative data may have misclassified individuals\u2019 eligibility for kidney transplant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions<\/strong> \u2014 These results can be used by jurisdictions to measure transplant referral, a necessary step in kidney transplantation that is not equitable for all patients. Adoption of these indicators should drive quality improvement efforts that increase the number of patients referred for transplantation and ensure equitable access for all patient groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background \u2014 Quality indicators are required to identify gaps in care and to improve equitable access to kidney transplants. Referral to a transplant center for an evaluation is the first step toward receiving a kidney transplant, yet widespread reporting on this metric is lacking. Objective \u2014 The objective was to use administrative health care databases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"topic":[63,49,54],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-21647","journal_article","type-journal_article","status-publish","hentry","topic-decision-science","topic-kidney-disease","topic-organ-transplantation-and-donation"],"acf":{"citation":"Naylor KL, Kim SJ, Luo B, Wang C, Garg AX, Yohanna S, Treleaven D, McKenzie S, Ip J, Cooper R, Rehman N, Knoll G. <em>Can J Kidney Health Dis<\/em>. 2025; 12:20543581251317009.","source_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/20543581251317009","ices_scientist":[1299,1153,1242],"site":[6739],"research_program":[6743],"news_release":"","journal_article":"","atlas":"","research_report":"","infographic":"","video":"","downloads":null,"links":null,"sitecore_item_id":"","sitecore_item_name":"","sitecore_field_values":"","previous_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ICES | Defining referral for a kidney transplant evaluation as a quality indicator: a population-based cohort study<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Background \u2014 Quality indicators are required to identify gaps in care and to improve equitable access to kidney transplants. 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