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Table 5 Components for a kidney compensation for transplantation using stated preferences studies (US$ of 2013)

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

Reference VSL

VSL

Compensation for

Reservation price

Total

Savings to the system

Death risk

Quality risk

In costs

In costs + QALY

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Ortuzar and Cifuentes (2000) (road safety)

0.68

306

4292

6474

9900

44,143

175,745

Ortuzar and Cifuentes (2000) (air pollution)

0.41

185

4292

6352

9778

44,264

175,866

Rizzi (2003)

0.28

126

4292

6294

9720

44,323

175,925

Iraguen and Ortuzar (2004)

0.39

176

4292

6343

9769

44,273

175,875

Hojman et al. (2005) (road safety-route 5)

0.40

180

4292

6348

9774

44,269

175,871

Hojman et al. (2005) (road safety-route 68)

0.38

171

4292

6339

9765

44,278

175,880

GreenLabUC (2014) (road safety)

0.82

369

4292

6537

9963

44,080

175,682

GreenLabUC (2014) (air pollution)

5.40

2430

4292

8598

12,024

42,019

173,621

  1. (a) VSL in million dollars. (b) Risk of death component = risk of death \(\times\) value of a statistical life. According to data of the Catalan Transplant Foundation, the risk of death in a kidney extraction surgery is 0.045%. (c) For quality risk compensation, we use the risk of a non-fatal complication \(\times\) Value of statistical injury estimated replicating Parada-Contzen et al. (2013). The risk of a non-fatal complication is 13%. (d) For every row, there is a time loss compensation of US$1876 included in the reservation price. (e) Savings in costs consider only savings to the health system. Benefits in QALY consider gains of improving the quality of life of patients after receiving an organ. To compute these values, we subtract the reservation price to the values estimated by Harrison et al. (2010)