Kidney Transplant Wait Times Under Waiting List Expansion Scenarios.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Kidney transplantation offers survival benefits and superior quality of life compared with maintenance dialysis for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), but it is limited to approximately 25 000 patients annually in the United States. Expanding access to transplant could be accomplished by allowing more patients to join the waiting list or by increasing organ supply.

Objective

To estimate how these interventions could affect transplant wait times.

Design, setting, and participants

This decision-analytic study used a Markov model with a simulated cohort of transplant-eligible US patients over 10 years (2022-2032).

Exposures

Three expansion strategies: waiting list expansion alone, waiting list expansion with deceased-donor transplant (DDT) e

SUBMITTER: Caldwell JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11933994 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature