From: Inequalities and outcomes: end stage kidney disease in ethnic minorities
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● Studies (including systematic reviews and all study designs) that mention ethnic minority health in line with the above definition and in relation to end stage kidney disease and related descriptions (end stage renal failure, dialysis, end of life kidney care). ● Evidence of a measurable outcome on health or wellbeing (e.g. physical or mental health or physiological or quality of life or wellbeing) ● Studies which concern any of the related end stage kidney disease descriptors: ○ Patients on any kind of dialysis ○ Patients on Renal replacement therapy ○ Transplant patients ○ End stage renal failure ● Adults over 18 ● Studies in English, post 1992 ● Any country ● A comparison with non-ethnic minority group (s) | ● Studies outside the agreed definition of ethnic minority ● Studies with no measurable outcomes that relate to health ● Studies which do not concern any of the related end stage kidney failure descriptors: ○ Patients on any kind of dialysis ○ Transplant patients ○ End stage renal failure ● Children less than 18 ● Studies in languages other than English, prior to 1992 ● Studies that do not have a comparison with non-ethnic minority group (s) ● Studies that are commentaries, editorials (which do not present data), thought pieces or conference abstracts |