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Table 2 Estimated kidney compensation and savings for transplantation across the wage distribution (US$ of 2013)

From: An analysis of economic incentives to encourage organ donation: evidence from Chile

 

Compensation for

Reservation price

Total

Time loss

Death risk

Quality risk

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Mean

1876

6179

4292

12,347

15,773

Percentile

1

120

394

274

788

4214

5

306

1008

700

2013

5439

10

479

1577

1095

3151

6577

25

734

2418

1680

4832

8258

50

1101

3627

2519

7248

10,673

75

1835

6045

4199

12,079

15,505

90

3639

11,986

8326

23,951

27,377

95

5984

19,712

13,692

39,387

42,813

99

12,235

40,301

27,993

80,528

83,954

 

Savings to the system

Savings in costs

Savings in costs

   

+ Benefits in QALY

   

Mean

38,269

169,871

   

Percentile

 1

49,829

181,431

   

 5

48,603

180,205

   

 10

47,465

179,067

   

 25

45,785

177,387

   

 50

43,369

174,971

   

 75

38,537

170,139

   

 90

26,666

158,268

   

 95

11,229

142,832

   

 99

− 29,912

101,690

   
  1. (a) Risk of death component = 0.00045 \(\times\) VSL. (b) Quality of life component = 0.13 \(\times\) VSI. (c) Value of time = 3 \(\times\) wage. Wage is percentile-specific. (d) Total cost does not consider a health care system that covers the procurement cost. We present the total compensation in case the extraction surgery is not covered by the recipient’s health insurance. This amount is included in the benefits computations by Harrison et al. (2010) so it is not added in the total cost for the analysis. (e) Savings in costs consider only savings to the health system (\(US\$ 50,616)\) minus the compensation payment. Benefits in QALY add gains of improving the quality of life of patients after receiving an organ (additional benefits of \(US\$ 131,602\) over the savings in costs to the health system). Savings in costs plus benefits in QALY report benefits of \(US\$ 182,218\) minus the compensation payment