From Al Roth's Market Design Blog:
The deceased donor waiting list for kidneys to transplant is congested: offers, which take time to evaluate, are often rejected, while cold ischemia time accumulates.
Here's a paper just published in Transplantation, in which we suggest new ways to detect organs that will be hard to match, and which might therefore be expedited through the allocation process (to get more quickly to patients who will accept them).
Insights From Refusal Patterns for Deceased Donor Kidney Offers, by Guan, Grace MS1; Neelam, Sanjit MS2; Studnia, Joachim MS2; Cheng, Xingxing S. MD, MS3; Melcher, Marc L. MD, PhD4; Rees, Michael A. MD, PhD5,6; Roth, Alvin E. PhD7; Somaini, Paulo PhD8; Ashlagi, Itai PhD1
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Transplantation ():10.1097/TP.0000000000005434, May 21, 2025
