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American Society of Nephrology, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 5(4), p. 979-987, 2009

DOI: 10.2215/cjn.06311208

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Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Attainment of Clinical Practice Guideline Standards in Dialysis Patients in the United Kingdom

Journal article published in 2009 by Udaya P. Udayaraj, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Paul Roderick, Retha Steenkamp, David Ansell, Charles R. V. Tomson, Fergus J. Caskey ORCID
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Abstract

Background and objectives: the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and its contribution to ethnic differences in standards attainment among dialysis patients is not known. Design, setting, participants, & measurements: we examined associations between area- level SES (Townsend index) and ethnicity (white, black, South Asian) and standards attainment in 14,117 incident dialysis patients (1997–2004) in the UK. Results: deprived patients were less likely to achieve hemoglobin (Hb) ≥ 10g/dl (trend P