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Survival Benefit: Quality Versus Quantity and Trade‐offs in Developing New Renal Allocation Systems
Author(s) -
Freeman R. B.
Publication year - 2007
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/j.1600-6143.2007.01762.x
Subject(s) - medicine , quality (philosophy) , intensive care medicine , epistemology , philosophy
Policy makers in the United States are tackling the development of a new kidney allocation system that will accommodate individual recipient calculations of the trade‐off between organ quality and waiting time, balancing patient autonomy and utilitarian benefit. See also editorial by Shapiro in this issue on page 1041.