Table 3 Staff, patient, and facility-level characteristics of survey population
Characteristics | n = 65 |
|---|---|
Survey Population Characteristics | |
Staff rolea | |
 % Social Worker | 50.8 |
 % Clinic (nurse) manager | 15.4 |
 % Facility administrator | 10.8 |
 % Administrative assistant | 4.6 |
 % Nurse | 4.6 |
Facility Characteristicsb | |
 No. of patients per facility, mean ± SD | 44.6 ± 24.3 |
 No. of staff, mean ± SD | 9.4 ± 5.6 |
 % For profit | 88.1 |
 % crude referral in lowest 50th percentile | 64.6 |
 % within-facility racial disparity in kidney transplant referrals at baseline (2013) | 35.4 |
Characteristics of patients within facilitiesb | |
 Age (years), mean ± SD | 60.2 ± 6.2 |
 % White | 32.8 |
 % Black | 65.8 |
 % Hispanic | 2.0 |
 % Hemodialysis modality | 94.8 |
 % Uninsured at ESRD start | 10.1 |
 % Medicaid only at ESRD start | 12.9 |
 % Unemployed | 69.2 |
 Average time on dialysis (years), mean ± SD | 5.0 ± 1.2 |
 % Receiving no pre-ESRD nephrology care | 25.8 |
 % Not informed of transplant options | 3.2 |
 % With diabetes | 54.4 |
 % With hypertension | 92.2 |
 % With arteriovenous fistula | 29.9 |
 Average count of comorbidities, mean ± SD | 2.8 ± 0.8 |