title: The economics of transplantation.
abstract: Transplantation continues to be a popular solution for a number of end-stage diseases and survival rates continue to increase. It is, however, an expensive therapeutic option, with the costs persisting throughout a patient's lifetime. It is therefore important to keep sight of these costs in relation to the quality of patient outcome and the emergence of alternative therapies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors.forename: F K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Dark
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D015996:Survival Rate; D014180:Transplantation / Q000191:economics* / Q000401:mortality