Association between Longer Travel Distance for Transplant Care and Access to Kidney Transplantation and Graft Survival in the United States.
Adrian M WhelanKirsten L JohansenSandeep BrarCharles E McCullochDeborah B AdeyGarrett R RollBarbara GrimesElaine KuPublished in: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN (2021)
Patients who travel excess distances for transplant care have better access to living donor but not deceased donor transplantation and slightly higher risk of graft failure. Traveling excess distances is not clearly associated with better outcomes, especially if living donors are unavailable.