Voucher-Based Kidney Donation and Redemption for Future Transplant.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Policy makers, transplant professionals, and patient organizations agree that there is a need to increase the number of kidney transplants by facilitating living donation. Vouchers for future transplant provide a means of overcoming the chronological incompatibility that occurs when the ideal time for living donation differs from the time at which the intended recipient actually needs a transplant. However, uncertainty remains regarding the actual change in the number of living kidney donors associated with voucher programs and the capability of voucher redemptions to produce timely transplants.

Objective

To examine the consequences of voucher-based kidney donation and the capability of voucher redemptions to provide timely kidney allografts.

Design, setting, a

SUBMITTER: Veale JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8223145 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature