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The kidney allocation system claims equity: It is time to review utility and fairness
Author(s) -
Klintmalm Goran B.,
Kaplan Bruce
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.14457
Subject(s) - medicine , equity (law) , actuarial science , intensive care medicine , economics , law , political science
The authors posit that the Kidney Allocation System wastes kidneys by not focusing on long‐term graft survival and suggest that giving repeat transplants priority over patients still waiting for their first kidney defies a principle of fairness.