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Age limitation for organ transplantation: the Israeli example

Author(s) -

Eyal Katvan,

Israel Doron,

Tamar Ashkenazi,

Hagai Boas,

Michal Carmiel-Haggai,

Michal Dranitzki Elhalel,

Boaz Shnoor,

Jacob Lavee

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afw162

Subject(s) - age limit , transplantation , organ transplantation , medicine , listing (finance) , christian ministry , organ donation , family medicine , law , political science , demography , surgery , business , sociology , finance

In 2013 the Israeli Ministry of Health appointed a public committee to examine the policy of placing an age limitation on candidates listed for organ transplantation. The committee rejected the use of an age limit criterion for listing candidates for transplantation and recommended to abolish it. However, opinions differed regarding the use of recipients’ age in shaping a fair organ allocation policy. The committee's recommendations were adopted and put into force as of April 2014. This article unfolds the committee deliberations on accommodating values of formal equality for optimising the use of organ transplantation.

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