Financial Costs Incurred by Living Kidney Donors: A Prospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 40% of the kidneys for transplant worldwide come from living donors. Despite advantages of living donor transplants, rates have stagnated in recent years. One possible barrier may be costs related to the transplant process that potential willing donors may incur for travel, parking, accommodation, and lost productivity.

Methods

To better understand and quantify the financial costs incurred by living kidney donors, we conducted a prospective cohort study, recruiting 912 living kidney donors from 12 transplant centers across Canada between 2009 and 2014; 821 of them completed all or a portion of the costing survey. We report microcosted total, out-of-pocket, and lost productivity costs (in 2016 Canadian dollars) for living kidney donors from donor eval

SUBMITTER: Przech S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6287873 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature