Increasing the Number of Organs Available to Transplant Is Separate From Ensuring Equitable Distribution of Available Organs: Both Are Important Goals

Am J Transplant. 2016 Feb;16(2):728-9. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13577. Epub 2016 Jan 12.

Authors

R Hirose¹, S E Gentry², D C Mulligan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
² Department of Mathematics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
³ Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

PMID: 26757240
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13577

No abstract available

Keywords: United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); ethics and public policy; liver transplantation/hepatology; organ allocation.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Organ Transplantation / statistics & numerical data*
Tissue Donors*