03 June 2025 : Original article
Effects of Donor-Recipient Race Matching on Kidney Transplant Survival
Marie Chisholm-Burns
ABDEF 1*, Christina Spivey ABCDEF 1, Richard Formica ADEF 2
DOI: 10.12659/AOT.947720
Ann Transplant 2025; 30:e947720
Table 2 Quality assessment of included observational and case-control studies (n=7) [2,5,24–28a b].
| Studies | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q8 | Q9 | Q10 | Q11 | Q12 | Q13 | Q14c | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaston et al 1992 []5 | 0 | 1 | NA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | NA | 1 | G |
| LeClaire et al 2021 []2 | 1 | 0 | NA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | NA | 1 | G |
| Meier-Kriesche et al 2000 []24 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | NA | 1 | G |
| Opelz et al 1977 []25 | 1 | 0 | NA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | NA | 0 | F |
| Perdue & Terasaki 1982 []26 | 1 | 0 | NA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | NA | 0 | F |
| Tiwari et al 1987 []27 | 1 | 0 | NA | CD | 0 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | NA | 1 | F |
| Vincenti et al 1978 []28 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | 1 | NA | NA | 0 | G |
| a Response categories: 1 – Yes; 0 – No; CD – cannot determine; F – fair quality; G – good quality; NA – not applicable; NR – not reported; P – poor quality. b Studies addressing greater than 70% of risks of bias and threats to internal were considered as good quality, studies addressing 50–70% of items were considered as fair quality, and studies addressing less than less than 50% of items were considered poor quality. Questions: | |||||||||||||||