Inequity in organ allocation for patients awaiting liver transplantation: Rationale for uncapping the model for end-stage liver disease

BACKGROUND & AIM: The goal of organ allocation is to distribute a scarce resource equitably to the sickest patients. In the United States, the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) is used to allocate livers for transplantation. Patients with greater MELD scores are at greater risk of death o...

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Pubblicato in:J Hepatol
Autori principali: Nadim, Mitra K., DiNorcia, Joseph, Ji, Lingyun, Groshen, Susan, Levitsky, Josh, Sung, Randall S., Kim, W. Ray, Andreoni, Kenneth, Mulligan, David, Genyk, Yuri S.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: 2017
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7735955/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28483678
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2017.04.022
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