Proposing change in organ allocation

Donor Organ Allocation

Purpose. Compare renal transplant long-term outcomes among recipients aged 60 years or older with those in younger patients. Patients and methods. We analyzed 103 transplants in recipients above 60 years of age for the influence of key factors related to the graft and patient. The results were compared with 1060 transplant recipients aged 18 to 59 years. Results. The mean ages were 62.93 and 40...

Optimizing Organ Allocation and Acceptance

OGUZHAN ALAGOZ Department of Operations Weatherhead School of Management Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106 [email protected] ANDREW J. SCHAEFER Departments of Industrial Engineering and Medicine University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261 [email protected] MARK S. ROBERTS Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling Division of General Inte...

Incentivizing Organ Donor Registrations with Organ Allocation Priority.

How donor organs are allocated for transplant can affect their scarcity. In 2008, Israel's Parliament passed an Organ Transplantation Law granting priority on organ donor waiting lists to individuals who had previously registered as organ donors. Beginning in November 2010, public awareness campaigns advertised the priority policy to the public. Since April 2012, priority has been added to the ...

Optimizing the Effectiveness of Organ Allocation

International Principles of Deceased Donor Organ Allocation

Transplant professionals are entrusted with a unique position in the practice of medicine—the stewardship of the organs from either the deceased or living donor. This stewardship entails two major responsibilities for which society holds transplant professionals accountable: the equitable allocation of deceased donor organs to medically suitable recipients, and the evaluation and care for the l...