Importance of incorporating standardized, verifiable, objective metrics of organ procurement organization performance into discussions about organ allocation

Incorporating Biology into Discrete Event Simulation Models of Organ Allocation

We describe a discrete event simulation model of the national liver allocation system. This model differs from previous modeling efforts in that it considers the natural history of the disease independently of any particular patient priority scheme, thus allowing an unbiased appraisal of various allocation schemes. We provide the basic structure of the model, which consists of patient and organ...

Ethics of cadaveric organ procurement and allocation (II).

THE FIRST TOPIC discussed by the panelists was collaboration between ethicists and medical professionals to elaborate a system of ethical assessment related to all transplantation activities. The necessity of such a system was agreed to be undisputable. Mutual consultation requires a common language, fully understandable by both parties. One of the panelists, an ethicist with a good medical bac...

Multiple Organ Procurement

Potential Organ-Donor Supply and Efficiency of Organ Procurement Organizations

The authors estimated the supply of organ donors in the U.S. and also according to organ procurement organizations (OPOs). They estimated the number of donors in the U.S. to be 16,796. Estimates of the number of potential donors for each OPO were used to calculate the level of donor efficiency (actual donors as a percent of potential donors). Overall, donor efficiency for OPOs was 35 percent; t...

Worldwide cadaveric organ donation systems (transplant organ procurement).