Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the United States. In particular, we consider po...

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Main Authors: Bertsimas, Dimitris J. (Contributor), Farias, Vivek F. (Contributor), Trichakis, Nikolaos (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014-06-04T14:35:13Z.
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