The Routine Use of High-Resolution Immunological Screening of Recipients of Primary Deceased Donor Kidney Allografts Is Cost-Effective
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The economic and health benefits of kidney transplantation are dependent on the length of allograft survival. High-resolution immunological screening can identify recipients at increased risk of early graft loss caused by acute rejection, but the use of these tests increases screening costs before transplantation. The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of routine use of high-resolution flow-cytometry cross-matching and solid-phase screening for all recipients of primary deceased donor kidney transplants. METHODS: A Markov model was constructed to evaluate costs and effects of two different clinical strategies on a simulated cohort of 1,000 transplant recipients: serological screening (SS) only and flow screening (FS) only. Outcomes measures were total cost of patient care over 25 years, life expectancy, quality-adjusted life expectancy, and transplant life expectancy. RESULTS: In the base-case analysis, FS was associated with an average gain of 0.08 life years, 0.25 transplant life years, and 0.08 quality-adjusted life years per patient. SS was associated with a higher cost of CND$6,397 per patient, mostly because of increased use of dialysis in patients who suffered early graft loss under the SS strategy. The results were robust to uncertainty in the majority of variables, and a strategy using FS was cost-effective except under the unlikely scenario where the false-negative rate for SS was <or=2% or the early graft loss rate for flow-positive recipients was <or=7% (compared with 5% for flow-negative recipients). CONCLUSIONS: Routine use of FS in recipients of first-deceased donor kidney transplants is cost-effective.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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