Provide names of other journalists involved.
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List date(s) this work was published or aired.
February 2012 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-1643.2011.0386.x/pdf
Provide a brief synopsis of the story or stories, including any significant findings.
African Americans with end stage renal (kidney) disease are less likely than their white counterparts to be referred for kidney transplantation. African Americans treated at for-profit dialysis centers are less likely than whites to be placed on the transplant wait list. Transplant professionals need to take an earlier, more active role in ensuring that up-to-date information about kidney transplantation is available to nephrologiists and dialysis units.
Explain types of documents, data or Internet resources used. Were FOI or public records act requests required? How did this affect the work?
Special published studies and statistics from US Renal Data System Annual Report; Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Sevices ESRD Conditions for Coverage, and from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; past studies and articles in the American Journal of Transplantation, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the National Medical Association, ASN Kidney News, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Renal News Today; and “Effect of the Ownership of Dialysis Facilities on Patients’ Survival and Referral for Transplantation,” New England Journal of Medicine, 1999.
Explain types of human sources used.
Interviews with Yoshio N. Hall, MD, Director of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle; Dorry Segev, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Neil R. Powe, MD, Chief of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital; Bryan Becker, MD, immediate past president, National Kidney Foundation; Robert Gaston, MD, Nephrologist, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Clive Callender, MD, Howard University transplant program and founder of the Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program; Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH, Emory University School of Medicine epidemiologist who studies racial disparities in transplantation
Results:
My AJT Report was distributed nationally to transplant centers in a newsletter published by the National Living Donor Assistance Center under a grant from HRSA. I’m told that the information was widely discussed at national transplant meetings.
Follow-up (if any). Have you run a correction or clarification on the report or has anyone come forward to challenge its accuracy? If so, please explain.
no clarifications, nor has accuracy been challenged
Advice to other journalists planning a similar story or project.
None that I know of.