Shortened Length of Stay Improves Financial Outcomes in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation

Kidney transplantation is the preferred clinical and most cost-effective option for endstage renal disease. Significant advances have taken place in the care of the transplant patients with improvements in clinical outcomes. The optimization of the costs of transplantation has been a constant goal as well. We present herein the impact in financial outcomes of a shortened length of stay after kidney transplant.