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Using Lower Quality Kidneys to Reduce Costs and Increase Transplants for Older Adults

Using typically discarded, higher-risk, yet acceptable-quality kidneys to increase transplant rates by 25% in adults ≥ 65 years of age may be cost-effective or even cost-saving, according to a new economic evaluation of the deceased donor transplant process. “One study found that older candidates had expressed a willingness to trade off kidney quality for shorter waiting times,” study investigator Matt Kaufmann, PhD, Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center Postdoctoral Fellow, said in an interview for HCPLive. “We have this pool of potentially usable kidneys that will otherwise go unused, and a patient population that receives a disproportionately low share of kidney transplants that may be willing to accept lower quality kidneys. We thought it was logical to estimate the benefits of allowing older candidates access to lower but acceptable quality kidneys.”