scholarly journals Changes in the United States Adult Heart Allocation Policy

Author(s):  
Supriya Shore ◽  
Jessica R. Golbus ◽  
Keith D. Aaronson ◽  
Brahmajee K. Nallamothu
Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 141 (20) ◽  
pp. 1662-1664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arman Kilic ◽  
Gavin Hickey ◽  
Michael A. Mathier ◽  
Robert L. Kormos ◽  
Ibrahim Sultan ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ersilia M. DeFilippis ◽  
Muthiah Vaduganathan ◽  
Sara Machado ◽  
Josef Stehlik ◽  
Mandeep R. Mehra

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Awais Ashfaq ◽  
Goeffrey M. Gray ◽  
Jennifer Carapellucci ◽  
Ernest K. Amankwah ◽  
Luis M. Ahumada ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 2465-2469 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Tambur ◽  
K. M. K. Haarberg ◽  
J. J. Friedewald ◽  
J. R. Leventhal ◽  
M. F. Cusick ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENNETH EINAR HIMMA

The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) recently changed the policy by which donor livers are allocated to liver failure patients in the United States. Formerly, all liver failure patients were characterized as status 1 and placed at the top of the transplant list. Under the new policy, only patients with liver failure due to acute illness (“ALF patients”) are eligible for status 1; patients with liver failure due to chronic liver disease (“CLF patients”) are characterized as status 2. Since donor organs are allocated first to status 1 patients and then to status 2 patients, the new policy moves all CLF patients down on the waiting list relative to all ALF patients. This means that some livers that would have gone to CLF patients under the old policy will now go to ALF patients. Accordingly, while the new policy will likely increase the number of ALF patients saved, it will also increase the number of deaths among CLF patients waiting for a transplant.


2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES F. CHILDRESS

Organ allocation policy involves a mixture of ethical, scientific, medical, legal, and political factors, among others. It is thus hard, and perhaps even impossible, to identify and fully separate ethical considerations from all these other factors. Yet I will focus primarily on the ethical considerations embedded in the current debate in the United States about organ allocation policy. I will argue that it is important to put patients first—in the language of the title of one of the major public hearings—but even then significant ethical questions will remain about exactly how to put patients first.


2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 1842-1848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay K. Israni ◽  
Nicholas Salkowski ◽  
Sally Gustafson ◽  
Jon J. Snyder ◽  
John J. Friedewald ◽  
...  

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