Transplant community has options to help eliminate bias from evaluation, selection process

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Transparency and collaboration are key in helping kidney specialists improve processes for selection of patients for transplantation, according to a presenter at the Cutting Edge of Transplantation Summit.
“We can’t fix all the disparities that we encounter,” Joel T. Adler, MD, MPH, said in the presentation. “A lot of things happen before we get to see patients in the transplant center.
“I would submit, and I think we can all generally agree, that we do a lot to get in our own way in the evaluation and selection process and we worsen