I can imagine such a low number if we’re talking about posthumous donations. According to this, only 3/1000 people die in such a way that their organs are useful. When you add that to the fact that deceased organs are less good than living ones, you can get something as low as this.
For example, this says that the QALY’s from a deceased kidney is 4.31. If only 3/1000 donors have such kidneys, you get 0.013 QALY’s. It will probably get higher when you account for all other organs. I should also mention that it’s not clear if all organs are damaged equally, so a less naive estimate would be useful.
I’ve tried to estimate the number of life years saved by the typical organ donor, and the latest estimate was I think something like 0.1.
This seems surprisingly low to me. Do you have some notes or a writeup of the analysis somewhere?
It looks like I accidentally took credit for Zach Weems’ estimate, made here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EACryonics/permalink/1737340919637664/
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I can imagine such a low number if we’re talking about posthumous donations. According to this, only 3/1000 people die in such a way that their organs are useful. When you add that to the fact that deceased organs are less good than living ones, you can get something as low as this.
For example, this says that the QALY’s from a deceased kidney is 4.31. If only 3/1000 donors have such kidneys, you get 0.013 QALY’s. It will probably get higher when you account for all other organs. I should also mention that it’s not clear if all organs are damaged equally, so a less naive estimate would be useful.