Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Home‐Based Renal Replacement Therapies Among Incident End‐Stage Renal Disease Patients in the United States

Abstract

Racial and ethnic disparities in access to home‐based renal replacement therapies (RRT) remain a major concern in the management of end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States. Despite national efforts to expand home hemodialysis (HHD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD), inequities at treatment initiation persist. Therefore, the goal was to evaluate racial and ethnic disparities in the initial modality of RRT among incident adult ESRD patients in the United Stated from 2014 to 2020.