Open AccessA mathematical model for shortening waiting time in pancreas-kidney transplantation
Author(s) -
Eleazar Chaib,
Marcelo Augusto Fontenelle Ribeiro,
Vinicius Rocha Santos,
Roberto Ferreira Meirelles,
Luiz Augusto Carneiro D’Albuquerque,
Eduardo Massad
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-9366
DOI - 10.4240/wjgs.v3.i8.119
Subject(s) - waiting list , medicine , transplantation , ideal (ethics) , pancreas , incidence (geometry) , surgery , kidney transplantation , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , epistemology
To simulate a hypothetical increase of 50% in the number of pancreas-kidney (PK) transplantations using less-than-ideal donors by a mathematical model.