The complexity in analyzing the Health Economics of Organ Donation and Transplantation (ODT) reflects the variety of specialties involved in the maintenance and development of the service. Commonly, ODT relies on different funding sources. Financing the three main phases of the service (Organ Donation, Retrieval and Transplantation), these are often compartmentalized and independent. Furthermore, the value of the service is rarely analyzed against the social and treatment costs for the management of patients with End Stage Organ Failure (ESOF). Defining a Value-Based ODT service represents a major challenge, while hundreds of thousands of patients with ESOF globally, hope to receive an organ transplant as life-saving or life-prolonging treatment. The “value” itself may not be limited to cost-benefit analysis but it should include social aspects of care, influencing the overall quality and performances of ODT to benefit patients, their families and more broadly our society.
The objective of this Research Topic in Frontiers in Public Health consists in comprehensively addressing all aspects that may enhance the understanding of the Value of ODT service.
We intend to offer the opportunity to researchers, clinicians and commissioners to present their original analysis on all areas that may help defining the Value of ODT. Such areas will be ranging from Organ Donation and Organ Reconditioning, to Organ Retrieval and Transplantation; including the implications and needs of services caring for patients with ESOF and their families.
Currently, the available literature on such a relevant topic is remarkably scattered and confined to a relatively small number of publications. This platform may serve as a future scientific reference for service improvement as, undoubtedly, adapting successful strategies and service design to ODT programs represent a real benefit for future service improvement internationally.
In this special issue of Frontiers in Public Health we invite authors from all specialties involved in ODT to offer their contribution (primarily but not exclusively) on the following topics:
- Value Based Healthcare and Transplantation
- Finance of Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Outcomes and Infrastructures Governance
- Cost benefits of Transplantation
- Living Donation
- Innovative Techniques and Strategies
- Expanding Donor and Recipients pool
- Solid Organ Transplantation
- Outcome Benchmarking
- Education about ODT
- Organ Preservation and Reconditioning
- Obesity and Transplantation
The contribution may be in the form of:
• Original article • Systematic and mini reviews • Meta-analysis • Personal viewpoint (reserved for established clinicians/researchers at discretion of the Editorial team)
The complexity in analyzing the Health Economics of Organ Donation and Transplantation (ODT) reflects the variety of specialties involved in the maintenance and development of the service. Commonly, ODT relies on different funding sources. Financing the three main phases of the service (Organ Donation, Retrieval and Transplantation), these are often compartmentalized and independent. Furthermore, the value of the service is rarely analyzed against the social and treatment costs for the management of patients with End Stage Organ Failure (ESOF). Defining a Value-Based ODT service represents a major challenge, while hundreds of thousands of patients with ESOF globally, hope to receive an organ transplant as life-saving or life-prolonging treatment. The “value” itself may not be limited to cost-benefit analysis but it should include social aspects of care, influencing the overall quality and performances of ODT to benefit patients, their families and more broadly our society.
The objective of this Research Topic in Frontiers in Public Health consists in comprehensively addressing all aspects that may enhance the understanding of the Value of ODT service.
We intend to offer the opportunity to researchers, clinicians and commissioners to present their original analysis on all areas that may help defining the Value of ODT. Such areas will be ranging from Organ Donation and Organ Reconditioning, to Organ Retrieval and Transplantation; including the implications and needs of services caring for patients with ESOF and their families.
Currently, the available literature on such a relevant topic is remarkably scattered and confined to a relatively small number of publications. This platform may serve as a future scientific reference for service improvement as, undoubtedly, adapting successful strategies and service design to ODT programs represent a real benefit for future service improvement internationally.
In this special issue of Frontiers in Public Health we invite authors from all specialties involved in ODT to offer their contribution (primarily but not exclusively) on the following topics:
- Value Based Healthcare and Transplantation
- Finance of Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Outcomes and Infrastructures Governance
- Cost benefits of Transplantation
- Living Donation
- Innovative Techniques and Strategies
- Expanding Donor and Recipients pool
- Solid Organ Transplantation
- Outcome Benchmarking
- Education about ODT
- Organ Preservation and Reconditioning
- Obesity and Transplantation
The contribution may be in the form of:
• Original article • Systematic and mini reviews • Meta-analysis • Personal viewpoint (reserved for established clinicians/researchers at discretion of the Editorial team)