Optimizing Live Kidney Donor Workup: A Decision Analysis Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Screening potential live kidney donors is an intense process for both candidates and the healthcare system. It is conventionally implemented using a standard generic protocol. Efficiencies in this process could potentially be achieved using personalized protocols that are optimized for a given candidate. Aim: To create personalized protocols (by age, sex, and paired exchange status) and evaluate them relative to the standard generic protocol.

Methods

Two personalized protocols were created. One sequenced tests according to probability (high to low) of excluding a given candidate. The other sequenced tests according to the expected cost (low to high) per exclusion. Test costs and exclusion probabilities were extracted predominantly from Australian sources. These we

SUBMITTER: Cheng JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5959341 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature