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Building kidney exchange programmes in Europe: an overview of exchange practice and activities
Biro, Peter; Haase-Kromwijk, Bernadette; Andersson, Tommy et al.
2019In Transplantation, 103, p. 1514-1522
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Abstract :
[en] BACKGROUND: Considerable differences exist among the living donor Kidney Exchange Programmes (KEPs) that are in use and being built in Europe, contributing to a variation in the number of living donor transplants [6]. Efforts of European KEPs to exchange (best) practices and share approaches to address challenges have, however, been limited.METHODS:Experts from 23 European countries, collaborating on the ENCKEP COST Action, developed a questionnaire to collect detailed information on the functioning of all existing KEPs in Europe, as well as their opportunities and challenges. Following a comparative analysis, results were synthesised and interpreted by the same experts. RESULTS: The practices, opportunities and challenges reported by 17 European countries reveal that some of the 10 operating programmes are mature, while others are in earlier stages of development. Over 1300 transplants were performed through existing KEPs up to the end of 2016, providing approximately 8% of their countries' living kidney donations in 2015. All countries report challenges to either initiating KEPs or increasing volumes. Some challenges are shared, whilst others differ because of differences in context (eg, country size, effectiveness of deceased donor programme) and ethical and legal considerations (eg, regarding living donation as such, nonrelated donors, and altruistic donation). Transnational initiatives have started in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and Southern Europe. CONCLUSIONS: Exchange of best practices and shared advancement of national programmes to address existing challenges, aided by transnational exchanges, may substantially improve access to the most (cost) effective treatment for the increasing number of patients suffering from kidney disease.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)
Author, co-author :
Biro, Peter
Haase-Kromwijk, Bernadette
Andersson, Tommy
Ásgeirsson, Eyolfur
Baltesová, Tatiana
Boletis, Ioannis
Bolotinha, Catarina
Bond, Gregor
Böhmig, Georg
Burnapp, Lisa
Cechlárová, Katarína
Di Caccio, Paolo
Fronek, Jiri
Hadaya, Karine
Hemke, Aline
Jacquelinet, Christian
Johnson, Rachel
Kieszek, Rafal
Kuypers, Dirk
Leisman, Ruthanne
Macher, Marie-Alice
Manlove, David
Menoudakou, Georgia
Salonen, Mikko
Smeulders, Bart ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > Recherche opérationnelle et gestion de la production
Sparacino, Vito
Spieksma, F. C. R.
de la Oliva Valentín Muñoz, Maria
Wilson, Nic
van de Klundert, Joris
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Language :
English
Title :
Building kidney exchange programmes in Europe: an overview of exchange practice and activities
Publication date :
2019
Journal title :
Transplantation
ISSN :
0041-1337
eISSN :
1534-6080
Publisher :
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Volume :
103
Pages :
1514-1522
Peer reviewed :
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