Analysis of the renal transplant waiting list in the País Valencià (Spain)

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 345-358

  Abellan J J ^a,d   Armero, Carmen ^a   Conesa, D ^a   Perez Panades J ^b   Martinez Beneito M A ^c   Zurriaga, O ^c   Garcia Blasco M J ^c   Vanaclocha, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^c Direcció General de Salut Pública ^*  (Spain)

^d Institut Valencià d'Estadistica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Health services; Queueing; Simulation; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DATA ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; SPAIN; SYSTEMS THEORY; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 31344466221     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2217     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Port FK, Wolfe RA, Mauger EA, Berling DP, Jiang K. Comparison of survival probabilities for dialysis patients vs cadaveric renal transplant recipients. Journal of the American Medical Association 1993; 270:1339-1343.
2. Matesanz R. Coordinación y trasplantes: el modelo español, chapter Diferencias geográficas en el acceso a los tratamientos sustitutivos: diálisis y trasplante. Grupo Aula Médica, Madrid, 1994.
3. Eggers PW. Effect of transplantation on the medicare end-stage renal disease program. New England Journal of Medicine 1998; 318:223-229.
4. Wolfe RA, Ashby VB, Milford EL, AOO, Ettenger RE, Agodoa LY, Held PJ, Port FK. Comparison of mortality in all patients on dialysis, patients on dialysis awaiting transplantation, and recipients of a first cadaveric transplant. New England Journal of Medicine 1999; 341:1725-1730.
5. Eggers P. Comparison of treatment costs between dialysis and transplantation. Seminars in Nephrology 1992; 12:284-289.
6. Chertow GM, Mildford EL, Mackenzie HS, Brenner BM. Antigen independent determinants of cadaveric renal allograft failure. Journal of the American Medical Association 1996; 276:1732-1736.
7. Wujciak T, Opelz G. A proposal for improved cadaver kidney allocation. Transplant Proceedings 1993; 56: 1513-1517.
8. Smits JMA, Houwelingen HCV, Meester JD, Persijn GG, Claas FHJ. Analysis of the renal transplant waiting list. Transplantation 1998; 66(9):1146-1153.
9. DeMeester J, Persijn GG, Class FHJ, Frei U. In the queue for a cadaver donor kidney transplant: new rules and concepts in the Eurotransplant International Foundation. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2000; 15: 333-338.
10. Zenios SA, Chertow GM, Wein LM. Dynamic allocation of kidneys to candidates on the transplant waiting list. Operations Research 2000; 48(4):549-569.
11. Davies R, Roderick P. Planning resources for renal services throughout UK using simulation. European Journal of Operational Research 1998; 105:285-295.
12. Matesanz R, Miranda B (eds). Organ Donation for Transplantation. The Spanish Model. Grupo Aula Magna, Madrid, 1996.
13. Armero C, Bayarri MJ. Queues. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2001; 12676-12680.
14. Hall RW. Queueing Methods for Services and Manufacturing. Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1991.
15. Armero C, Abellán JJ, Conesa D, Pérez-Panadés J, Martínez-Beneito MA, Zurriaga O, Vanaclocha H, García-Blasco MJ. Waiting for a kidney in the País Valencià (Spain). Technical Report TR05-2003, Departament d'Estadística i I.O., Universitat de València, downloadable from http)://www.uv.es/geeitema, 2003.
16. Law AM, Kelton WD. Simulation Modelling and Analysis (3rd edn). McGraw-Hill: New York, 2000.
17. Gilks WR, Richardson S, Spiegelhalter DJ. Introducing Markov chain Monte Carlo. In Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice, Gilks WR, Richardson S, Spiegelhalter DJ (eds). Chapman & Hall: London, 1996; 1-16.