Organ Transplants

Reports outline organ transplants study results from Massachusetts General Hospital

Published in Blood Weekly, March 20th, 2008

According to a study from the United States, "Explore public attitudes towards the trade-offs between justice and medical outcome inherent in organ allocation decisions. The US Task Force on Organ Transplantation recommended that considerations of justice, autonomy and medical outcome be part of all organ allocation decisions."

"Justice in this context may be modeled as a function of three types of need, related to age, clinical urgency, and quality of life. A web-based survey was conducted in which respondents were asked to choose between two hypothetical patients who differed in clinical urgency (time to death <1 year), age, pretransplant and post-transplant...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2008-03-20)

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