Effectiveness of Different Kidney Exchange Mechanisms on Improving Living Donor Transplantation in Chile

• Autores: Diego Contreras, Javier Domínguez, Rodrigo Harrison
• Localización: Documentos de Trabajo ( Instituto de Economía PUC ), ISSN-e 0717-7593, Nº. 384, 2010
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Chile has a very low cadaveric organ donation rate; at the same time, living donor transplantation activity is low. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact on the number and quality of transplants of the potential application of different mechanisms for kidney exchange from living donors to patients on Chile´s waiting list.