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Developing a New Kidney Allocation Policy: The Rationale for Including Life Years from Transplant
Author(s) -
Stegall M. D.
Publication year - 2009
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.1600-6143.2009.02712.x
Subject(s) - compromise , medicine , metric (unit) , intensive care medicine , kidney transplant , kidney transplantation , surgery , transplantation , operations management , law , political science , economics
The viewpoint outlines the rationale for using LYFT as the major utility metric in kidney allocation and describes a compromise proposal in which recent public feedback is incorporated into the OPTN draft proposal.