House Calls Approach for the Kidney Transplant Waitlist

What is it about?

Blacks patients receive live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) less often than patients of all other races. This research evaluated the effectiveness of educational interventions in removing barriers to LDKT for blacks. This paper presents the results of a popular transplant education approach, Home Visits.

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Why is it important?

Patients who received home visits were more likely than other patients to have at least one donor inquiry and evaluation. Patients who receive home visits were more likely to have higher knowledge, fewer concerns, and higher willingness to talk to others about donation 6 weeks after intervention. These findings underscore the importance of including a patient's social network in their living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) education and the potential of the home visits intervention to reduce racial disparity in LDKT rates.