Abdolmohammad Kazemipur
John Porter Book Prize Lecture: Bringing the Social Back In-On the Integration of Muslim Immigrants and the Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities
Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie
introduction living donor discussions kidney transplant candidates discuss living kidney donation social network important step living donor kidney transplant process prior research investigated whether initiates discussion influences evaluation agreement rates processes may contribute disparities research questions study aimed determine common candidate potentialdonorinitiated discussions rate discussion type resulted agreement evaluated living donation sociodemographic characteristics predicted living donor discussion agreements design 2015 crosssectional survey single large southeastern us transplant center measured kidney transplant candidates social networks including whether donor discussion initiated whether discussion resulted donor evaluation agreement candidatenetwork member pairs probability candidateinitiated discussion potentialliving donorinitiated discussion discussions compared multinomial logistic regression probability discussion resulted evaluation agreement evaluated multinomial logistic regression results sixtysix kidney transplant candidates reported 1421 social network members 80 candidatenetworkmember pairs living donor discussion candidateinitiated discussions 11 slightly common potentialdonorinitiated discussions 10 evaluation agreement much common potentialdonorinitiated 72 candidateinitiated discussions 39 potentialdonorinitiated discussions common white candidates 16 black candidates 7 conclusion potentialdonorinitiated discussions resulted evaluation agreement much frequently candidateinitiated discussions dynamic may contribute racial living donation disparities