This is wrong: the 10-15 year estimate already takes into account rejections and other transplant failures. So I’m off by 50% and we get 8-12 QALYs.
The data is also from a study on kidneys from cadavers; live donated ones might be better.
Live ones apparently are better; I heard this before recently, and this seems to be right according to a few pages I checked, although they don’t cite specific studies: http://kidney-beans.blogspot.com/2009/08/living-kidney-donation-vs-cadaver.html or http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/transplant/
This is wrong: the 10-15 year estimate already takes into account rejections and other transplant failures. So I’m off by 50% and we get 8-12 QALYs.
The data is also from a study on kidneys from cadavers; live donated ones might be better.
Live ones apparently are better; I heard this before recently, and this seems to be right according to a few pages I checked, although they don’t cite specific studies: http://kidney-beans.blogspot.com/2009/08/living-kidney-donation-vs-cadaver.html or http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/transplant/