Global kidney chains

Afshin Nikzad, Mohammad Akbarpour, Michael A. Rees and Alvin Roth
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Afshin Nikzad: Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Mohammad Akbarpour: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305
Michael A. Rees: Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation, Toledo, OH 43604; Department of Urology, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH 43614

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, vol. 118, issue 36, e2106652118

Abstract: Kidney failure is a worldwide scourge, made more lethal by the shortage of transplants. We propose a way to organize kidney exchange chains internationally between middle-income countries with financial barriers to transplantation and high-income countries with many hard to match patients and patient–donor pairs facing lengthy dialysis. The proposal involves chains of exchange that begin in the middle-income country and end in the high-income country. We also propose a way of financing such chains using savings to US health care payers.

Keywords: kidney exchange; transplantation; market design; global kidney exchange; chains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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