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Table 1 Service centres, showing size, setting, patient/staff interviewee numbers and Indigenous status

From: Study Protocol – Improving Access to Kidney Transplants (IMPAKT): A detailed account of a qualitative study investigating barriers to transplant for Australian Indigenous people with end-stage kidney disease

 

Service Centres

Interviewees

State

Site

Type

No. of chairs

ARIA rank

Patients

Staff3

     

I 2

non-I 2

total

 

NSW

1

hospital + tx unit

11

HA

1

8

9

4

 

2

hospital

12

HA

0

7

7

0

 

3

hospital

33*

HA

0

2

2

0

 

4

satellite unit

10

A

5

10

15

5

 

5

satellite unit

3

R

2

0

2

0

 

6

satellite unit

3

A

2

1

3

0

     

10

28

38

9

WA

7

hospital + tx unit

12*

HA

1

5

6

8

 

8

satellite unit

20

HA

7

8

15

2

 

9

satellite unit

12

HA

5

5

10

4

 

10

satellite unit

6

MA

10

1

11

11

 

11

satellite unit

10

R

22

1

23

11

     

45

20

65

36

QLD

12

hospital + tx unit

 

HA

5

8

13

9

 

13

hospital

13*

MA

1

1

2

9

 

14

satellite unit

8

MA

13

5

18

0

 

15

satellite unit

8

MA

6

5

11

4

 

16

hospital

 

MA

6

1

7

8

 

17

satellite unit

8

MA

7

5

12

1

     

38

25

63

31

SA

18

hospital + tx unit

12*

HA

1

4

5

7

 

19

satellite unit

16

HA

2

5

7

2

 

20

satellite unit

10

MA

7

7

14

6

     

10

16

26

15

NT

21

hospital

6

MA

0

1

1

7

 

22

satellite unit

22*

MA

6

2

8

4

 

23

satellite unit

8

MA

6

0

6

1

 

24

satellite unit

4

R

5

1

6

1

 

25

satellite unit

8

VR

9

0

9

3

 

26

satellite unit

26

R

17

2

19

7

     

43

6

49

23

Total

    

146

95

241

114

  1. The ARIA scale has 5 classes of remoteness: HA = Highly Accessible; A = Accessible; MA = Moderately Accessible; R = Remote; VR = Very Remote
  2. * includes chairs allocated for teaching home haemodialysis patients
  3. 2: I = Indigenous; non-I = non-Indigenous
  4. 3: 'staff' in this table includes nephrologists