Ethics/Organ Allocation

Current UNOS Method of HLA Matching Requires More Study

Published in Blood Weekly, March 6th, 1995

The importance of blood typing and HLA matching were among the ethical issues addressed regarding allocation of organs by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (the Council) of the American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois.

The Council concluded that the current method of organ allocation, which is governed by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), is based on proper ethical principles, including the likelihood of benefit, duration of benefit and urgency of need and the use of waiting time to make final allocation decisions when no very substantial differences exist among patients ("Ethical Considerations in the Allocation of Organs and Other Scarce...

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