Nearly Half of Kidney Transplant Patients Never Even Start…

Nearly Half of Kidney Transplant Patients Never Even Start the Process We often think about kidney transplants in terms of donor shortages and long waitlists. A major new study suggests the bigger problem may be happening even earlier, before patients ever reach the waitlist at all. Researchers at NYU Langone Health analysed data from over 720,000 patients referred for kidney transplantation across the United States, the largest study of its kind to date. The results are striking. 48% of referred patients never even began the evaluation process. And of everyone referred, only 19% completed evaluation and made it onto the transplant waitlist. In other words, for most patients, the biggest obstacle isn't finding a donor. It's simply getting through the system in the first place. The study identified clear patterns in who struggl