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Reducing the financial disincentives to living kidney donation: will compensation help the way it is supposed to?

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boxed-textGaston RS et al. (2006) Limiting financial disincentives in live organ donation: a rational solution to the kidney shortage. Am J Transplant 6: 2548–2555

Living kidney donors could be remunerated with a package of financial benefits, but such a package might encourage donation by those wishing solely to obtain the cash benefit, and does not reduce the need to increase donation from deceased donors

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The synopsis was written by Chloë Harman, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, The Transplant Center, 110 Francis Street, 7th floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA amonaco@bidmc.harvard.edu

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Monaco, A. Reducing the financial disincentives to living kidney donation: will compensation help the way it is supposed to?. Nat Rev Nephrol 3, 132–133 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0399

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