Literature Source For Failed Transplant Cost Calculation
In summarizing the article by Willoughby, et al, Health insurance considerations for adolescent transplant recipients as they transition to adulthood,1 the 14 March 2007 AlignMap blog post, Out Of Pocket Costs and Transplant Failures Rise In Concert, included the statement that “… the healthcare costs of failed [kidney] transplants are 10 times higher than functioning transplants.”
While the cost calculation was noted in the Willoughby article, its original source is
G. Machnicki, L. Seriai, M. Schnitzler, Economics of transplantation: a review of the literature. Transplantation Reviews, April 2006. Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 61-75.
This citation has also been added to the original post.
Footnotes
- Full citation: Lisa M. Willoughby, Sumina Fukami, Suphamai Bunnapradist, Jeffrey A. Gavard, Krista L. Lentine, Karen L. Hardinger, Thomas E. Burroughs, Steven K. Takemoto, Mark A. Schnitzler (2007) Health insurance considerations for adolescent transplant recipients as they transition to adulthood Pediatric Transplantation 11 (2), 127–131.↩