In one centre, 24% of patients' relatives did not donate because of anticipated financial
hardship. provinces (Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island …

Living organ donors frequently incur non-medical expenses for travel, accommodation,
prescription drugs, loss of income, and child care in conjunction with organ donation …

Unlike the United States, the potential to increase organ donation in Canada may be
sufficient to meet the need for transplantation. However, there has been no national …

Background. Living donors may incur out-of-pocket costs during the donation process. While
many jurisdictions have programs to reimburse living kidney donors for expenses, few …

Methods to reimburse living organ donors for the non-medical expenses they incur have
been implemented in some jurisdictions and are being considered in others. A global …

Results Compared with the current organ donation system, a strategy of increasing the
number of kidneys for transplantation by 5% by paying living donors $10,000 has an …

Purpose Live donor kidney transplantation has superior outcomes to deceased donor
transplantation; however, the number of living kidney donors continues to decrease in the …

Availability of kidney transplantation is limited by an inadequate supply of organs, with no
apparent remedy on the immediate horizon and increasing reliance on living donors (LDs) …

Some living kidney donors incur economic consequences as a result of donation; however,
these costs are poorly quantified. We developed a framework to comprehensively assess …

Continuous growth of the end stage renal disease population treated by dialysis, outpaces
deceased donor kidneys available, lengthens the waiting time for a deceased donor …