ArticleBMJ global health2020
The impact of country reimbursement programmes on living kidney donations.
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- Policy innovations to advance equity in solid organ transplantation.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Review
- A machine learning-based nomogram for predicting graft survival in allograft kidney transplant recipients: a 20-year follow-up study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- A Retrospective Analysis of National Kidney Registry Integration at a Single Center in the Northern Great Plains.Journal of transplantation · 2025Article
- Challenges to establishing and maintaining kidney transplantation programs in developing countries: What are the coping strategies?World journal of methodology · 2024Review
- An experimental test of whether financial incentives constitute undue inducement in decision-making.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Factors influencing deceased organ donation rates in OECD countries: a panel data analysis.BMJ open · 2024Article
- A machine-learning approach to estimating public intentions to become a living kidney donor in England: Evidence from repeated cross-sectional survey data.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Motivators and Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplant as Perceived by Past and Potential Donors.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionLiving-donor kidney transplantation is the gold standard treatment for patients with end-stage kidney disease. However, potential donors ubiquitously face financial as well as logistical barriers. To remove these disincentives from living kidney donations, the governments of 23 countries have implemented reimbursement programmes that shift the burdens of non-medical costs from donors to the governments or private entities. However, scientific evidence for the effectiveness of these programmes is scarce. The present study investigates whether these reimbursement programmes designed to ease the financial and logistical barriers succeeded in increasing the number of living kidney donations at the country level. The study examined within-country variations in the timing of such reimbursement programmes.
methodThe study applied the difference-in-difference (two-way panel fixed-effect) technique on the Poisson distribution to estimate the effects of these reimbursement programmes on a 17 year long (2000-2016) dataset covering 109 countries where living donor kidney transplants were performed.
resultsThe results indicated that reimbursement programmes have a statistically significant positive effect. Overall, the model predicted that reimbursement programmes increased country-level donation numbers by a factor of 1.12-1.16.
conclusionReimbursement programmes may be an effective approach to alleviate the kidney shortage worldwide. Further analysis is warranted on the type of reimbursement programmes and the ethical dimension of each type of such programmes.
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