McPherson LJ, Barry V, Yackley J, et al. - Researchers examined whether whether the likelihood of referral and initiating the transplant evaluation once referred increase in correlation with a shorter distance from patients’ residence to a transplant center. The US Renal Data System yielded data from 27,250 adult patients on incident dialysis for ESKD at any Georgia, North Carolina, or South Carolina dialysis facility from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2015. Among these patients, referral was made for 9,582 (35%). Analysis revealed no increased likelihood of referral and initiating transplant center evaluation in correlation with distance from residence to transplant center among patients undergoing long-term dialysis in the southeastern United States.