Fig. 1

Markov model used. The Markov model has four health states: waitlisted for a kidney, kidney transplanted, post graft-failure dialysis and death. The cohort starts at the “waitlisted for a kidney” health state and patients in the cohort will be in this health state until they are transplanted or until die. When a patient transitions to the “kidney transplanted” health state they can experience either graft failure or death, or continuing successful transplantation