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Race and trust in the health care systemL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Public Health Rep 118:358-65. 2003....
Whole body donation for medical science: a population-based studyL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Anat 17:570-7. 2004..Efforts to enhance donation should seek to identify ways in which potential barriers to donation can be addressed by health professionals...- Primary care-specialist collaboration in the care of patients with chronic kidney diseaseClarissa Jonas Diamantidis
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Medical Systems, 22 South Greene Street, Room N3W143, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 6:334-43. 2011..Physicians' desires to collaborate in the care of a hypothetical patient with CKD, their preferred content of collaboration, and their perceived barriers to collaboration were assessed... - Determinants of willingness to donate living related and cadaveric organs: identifying opportunities for interventionL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Transplantation 73:1683-91. 2002..Efforts to improve organ donation rates should be directed toward factors that are most important in explaining the existing variation in willingness to donate... - The general public's concerns about clinical risk in live kidney donationL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Transplant 2:186-93. 2002..Efforts to educate the public regarding live donation might help assuage fears and attract those who may not otherwise donate... - Understanding disparities in donor behavior: race and gender differences in willingness to donate blood and cadaveric organsL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Med Care 40:85-95. 2002..Potential donor concerns regarding mistrust in hospitals and religion/spirituality may serve as important issues to address when developing programs to improve donation rates... - Patient awareness of chronic kidney disease: trends and predictorsLaura C Plantinga
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:2268-75. 2008..The impact of recent guidelines for early detection and prevention of chronic kidney disease (CKD) on patient awareness of disease and factors that might be associated with awareness have not been well described... 
African American and non-African American patients' and families' decision making about renal replacement therapiesJohanna Sheu
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Qual Health Res 22:997-1006. 2012..Our findings suggest that a greater emphasis on the improved engagement of patients and their families in shared decision making about RRT initiation is needed for both ethnic/racial minorities and nonminorities...- Protocol of a randomized controlled trial of culturally sensitive interventions to improve African Americans' and non-African Americans' early, shared, and informed consideration of live kidney transplantation: the Talking About Live Kidney Donation (TALKL Ebony Boulware
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2024 E, Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
BMC Nephrol 12:34. 2011.... - Donor designation: racial and ethnic differences in US nondesignators' preferred methods for disclosing intent to donate organsTanjala S Purnell
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
Transpl Int 24:999-1007. 2011..Encouraging donation intention disclosure via discussions with physicians, family, and religious representatives and addressing medical mistrust could enhance strategies to improve nondesignators' donation rates... - Age and comorbidities are effect modifiers of gender disparities in renal transplantationDorry L Segev
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 20:621-8. 2009..These disparities exist despite similar survival benefits from transplantation for men and women regardless of age or comorbidities... - Identifying and addressing barriers to African American and non-African American families' discussions about preemptive living related kidney transplantationL Ebony Boulware
Division of General Internal Medicine and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, 2024 E Monument Street, Suite 2 600, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Prog Transplant 21:97-104; quiz 105. 2011.... - Quality of patient-physician discussions about CKD in primary care: a cross-sectional studyRaquel C Greer
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2024 E Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 57:583-91. 2011..The quality of patient-physician discussions about chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary care has not been studied previously... - Clinical testing patterns and cost implications of variation in the evaluation of CKD among US physiciansRaquel F Charles
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 54:227-37. 2009.... - Preferences for current health and their association with outcomes in patients with kidney diseaseLaura C Plantinga
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Med Care 45:230-7. 2007..Patients with chronic disease who express stronger preference for their current health might be expected to have better outcomes than patients who assign lower utility to their current health state... - Principles of screening for chronic kidney diseaseBernard G Jaar
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2024 E. Monument Street, Suite 2-500, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 3:601-9. 2008 - Population-based screening for CKDNeil R Powe
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 53:S64-70. 2009..We discuss how screening for chronic kidney disease meets many of these criteria, but also how the populations to which it is applied must be targeted and the strategies for testing must be clearly defined... - Albuminuria: is it time to screen the general population?Deidra C Crews
Department of Medicine, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 18:249-57. 2011..This review discusses the available literature addressing these issues, and suggests an approach to screening patients for albuminuria... - Blood pressure control among persons without and with chronic kidney disease: US trends and risk factors 1999-2006Laura C Plantinga
Departments of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Hypertension 54:47-56. 2009..Although some improvement has occurred over time, uncontrolled blood pressure remains highly prevalent, especially in subjects with chronic kidney disease and in nonwhites, older persons, and women. Therapy appears suboptimal... - Understanding and overcoming barriers to living kidney donation among racial and ethnic minorities in the United StatesTanjala S Purnell
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 19:244-51. 2012..We also highlight promising recent and current initiatives to address these barriers, as well as gaps in initiatives, which may guide future interventions to reduce racial-ethnic disparities in LDKT... - The providing resources to enhance African American patients' readiness to make decisions about kidney disease (PREPARED) study: protocol of a randomized controlled trialPatti L Ephraim
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BMC Nephrol 13:135. 2012..abstract:.. - Race differences in access to health care and disparities in incident chronic kidney disease in the USKira Evans
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Nephrol Dial Transplant 26:899-908. 2011..The contribution of race differences in access to health care to disparities in chronic kidney disease (CKD) incidence in the United States is unknown... - Perceived susceptibility to chronic kidney disease among high-risk patients seen in primary care practicesL Ebony Boulware
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, 2024 E Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1123-9. 2009..Patients' views of their risk for the development or progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are poorly characterized... - Willingness of the United States general public to participate in kidney paired donationDorry L Segev
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Clin Transplant 26:714-21. 2012..However, little is known about attitudes toward KPD among the general public, from which donors (particularly non-directed) are drawn... - Attitudes, psychology, and risk taking of potential live kidney donors: strangers, relatives, and the general publicL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Transplant 5:1671-80. 2005..Still, careful attention to communication of all risks of donation is warranted... - Effect of primary care physicians' use of estimated glomerular filtration rate on the timing of their subspecialty referral decisionsRaquel C Greer
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
BMC Nephrol 12:1. 2011..It is unknown whether U.S. primary care physicians' use of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) rather than serum creatinine to estimate CKD severity could improve the timeliness of their subspecialty referral decisions... - Identification and referral of patients with progressive CKD: a national studyL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 48:192-204. 2006.... - High-normal albuminuria and risk of heart failure in the communitySaul Blecker
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 58:47-55. 2011..Albuminuria has been associated with cardiovascular risk, but the relationship of high-normal albuminuria to subsequent heart failure has not been well established... - Preferences, knowledge, communication and patient-physician discussion of living kidney transplantation in African American familiesL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Transplant 5:1503-12. 2005.... - Temporal relation among depression symptoms, cardiovascular disease events, and mortality in end-stage renal disease: contribution of reverse causalityL Ebony Boulware
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 1:496-504. 2006..Attenuated risks from time-lag analyses indicate a partial role for reverse causality, suggesting that medical comorbidity may precede DS... - Prospective pilot study of living kidney donor decision-making and outcomesBenita Walton-Moss
School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Clin Transplant 21:86-93. 2007..We are continuing to explore these and other aspects of donor decision-making and outcomes and have expanded our sample to include non-donors in the post-evaluation period... - Systematic review: the value of the periodic health evaluationL Ebony Boulware
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ann Intern Med 146:289-300. 2007..The periodic health evaluation (PHE) has been a fundamental part of medical practice for decades despite a lack of consensus on its value... - Feasibility and acceptability of the TALK social worker intervention to improve live kidney transplantationNicole Depasquale
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Health Soc Work 37:234-49. 2012..Consistently high adherence to the TALK SWI protocol and acceptability of the intervention among patients and families suggest that the TALK SWI can be feasibly implemented in clinical practice... - Setting an agenda for comparative effectiveness systematic reviews in CKD careDeidra C Crews
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
BMC Nephrol 13:74. 2012..Chronic kidney disease topics rated by stakeholders as 'high priority' are varied in scope and may lead to quality systematic reviews impacting practice and policy... - Challenges perceived by primary care providers to educating patients about chronic kidney diseaseRaquel C Greer
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Ren Care 38:174-81. 2012..Conclusions: Interventions designed to address barriers to CKD education identified by PCPs could improve the delivery of education about CKD in primary care settings... - Screening for proteinuria in US adults: a cost-effectiveness analysisL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
JAMA 290:3101-14. 2003..Chronic kidney disease is a growing public health problem. Screening for early identification could improve health but could also lead to unnecessary harms and excess costs... - Quality of clinical reports on behavioral interventions for hypertensionL Ebony Boulware
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Prev Med 34:463-75. 2002..Investigators should pay particular attention to description of study population and allocation of subjects, the use of standardized outcomes reporting, and appropriate statistical analysis... - Direct, progressive association of cardiovascular risk factors with incident proteinuria: results from the Korea Medical Insurance Corporation (KMIC) studySun Ha Jee
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, The Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Arch Intern Med 165:2299-304. 2005..These associations were present even at low levels of exposure, emphasizing the importance of early detection and management of these modifiable risk factors...