Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

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A score of 20 or below automatically qualifies a patient for the kidney transplant waitlist, but studies have shown the black race variable incorrectly increased scores by as much as 16 percent.