How do you talk to patients about kidney health, lifestyle risks, or a plan for transplantation? In this episode, Drs Sparks, Diamantidis, and Farouk discuss the science, current studies, and their clinical experience.

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Resources

Kidney Transplantation https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/430128-overview

Kidney Transplantation https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/443490_5

The Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative https://www.kidney.org/advocacy/advancing-american-kidney-health-initiative

System Interventions to Achieve Early and Equitable Transplants (STEPS) Study https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05014256?titles=system+interventions+to+achieve+early+and+equitable+transplants&draw=2&rank=1

Evaluation for Kidney Transplant https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/kidney-transplant-evaluation

What Do Acute Kidney Injury Survivors Want to Know About Their Condition: A Qualitative Study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9044096/