Summary
The escalating number and cost of treating patients with end-stage renal disease is
a considerable economic concern for health care systems and societies globally. Compared
with dialysis, kidney transplantation leads to improved patient survival and quality
of life, as well as cost savings to the health payer. Despite efforts to increase
kidney transplantation, the gap between supply and demand continues to grow. In this
article we explore the economic consideration of both living and deceased transplantation.
Although living kidney donation has several advantages from an economic perspective,
efforts to increase both deceased and living donation are required. Strategies to
increase kidney donation are underfunded, and even costly strategies are likely to
lead to net health care savings. However, demonstration of efficacy of these strategies
is required to ensure efficient use of resources.
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Footnotes
Supported by a Population Health Investigator Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, and the Kidney Foundation of Canada (S.K.); and supported by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (J.G.).
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