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¹Department of Nephrology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia.

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Personalized live kidney donor screening protocols significantly reduce costs and the number of tests compared to standard protocols. This optimization improves efficiency for kidney transplant units.

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Health Economics

Background:

Live kidney donor screening is a rigorous process using a standard generic protocol.
Potential efficiencies exist through personalized screening protocols tailored to individual candidates.
Optimizing donor evaluation is crucial for healthcare systems and candidates.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop personalized live kidney donor screening protocols based on age, sex, and paired exchange status.
To evaluate the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of these personalized protocols against the standard generic protocol.

Main Methods:

Two personalized protocols were designed: one prioritizing exclusion probability, the other cost-effectiveness.
Decision analysis incorporating Markov processes was used for evaluation.
Data on test costs and exclusion probabilities were sourced primarily from Australian studies.

Main Results:

The standard generic protocol was consistently less efficient and more costly than personalized approaches.
On average, the standard protocol incurred A$1767.49 more in costs and required 3.53 additional tests per exclusion compared to the optimal personalized protocol.

Conclusions:

Personalized live kidney donor protocols offer a more rapid and cost-effective method for excluding ineligible candidates.
These optimized protocols enhance the efficiency of kidney transplant units.