Journal article
Healthcare Costs for the Evaluation, Surgery, and Follow-Up Care of Living Kidney Donors
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The healthcare costs to evaluate, perform surgery, and follow a living kidney donor for the year after donation are poorly described.
METHODS: We obtained information on the healthcare costs of 1099 living kidney donors between April 1, 2004, and March 31, 2014, from Ontario, Canada, using comprehensive healthcare administrative databases. We estimated the cost of 3 periods of the living donation process: the predonation evaluation …
Authors
Habbous S; Sarma S; Barnieh LJ; McArthur E; Klarenbach S; Manns B; Begen MA; Lentine KL; Garg AX
Journal
Transplantation, Vol. 102, No. 8, pp. 1367–1374
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
August 2018
DOI
10.1097/tp.0000000000002222
ISSN
0041-1337