Individual studies indicate that kidney transplantation is associated with lower mortality and
improved quality of life compared with chronic dialysis treatment. We did a systematic review
to summarize the benefits of transplantation, aiming to identify characteristics associated
with especially large or small relative benefit. Results were not pooled because of expected
diversity inherent to observational studies. Risk of bias was assessed using the Downs and
Black checklist and items related to time-to-event analysis techniques. MEDLINE and …