Showing posts with label deceased donors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deceased donors. Show all posts
Thursday, December 18, 2025

The national politics of deceased organ donation

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 The U.S. transplant system is relatively open to foreign patients, and the NYT reports with some concern the number of foreign citizens rec...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The local politics of deceased organ donation

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 "All politics is local" may not be entirely true, but local politics doesn't end at death. MedPage Today has the story:  Sena...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Gift to deceased donor family (generous ex-post, but illegal ex-ante)

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 What is generous ex-post but illegal ex-ante? Cleveland.com has the story:  Bernie Kosar gives large check to donor’s family days after lif...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Organ procurement centers (OPOs) are responding to changes in their performance evaluations (by Bae, Sweat, Melcher and Ashlagi in JAMA Surgery)

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 Here Bae H, Sweat KR, Melcher ML, Ashlagi I. Organ Procurement Following the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Performance Evaluat...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Withdrawals from deceased donor registries

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The NYT is standing by its recent stories on deceased organ donation. In the meantime  Newsweek has this story about people who have had sec...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Organ donation after circulatory death: the NYT recounts some disturbing cases

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 The NYT has a disturbing story this morning about organ donation after circulatory death. These are cases in which a decision has been made...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Disturbing NYT report about an Organ Procurement Organization in Kentucky

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 Deceased donation of organs mostly occurs after potential donors suffer brain death, which, roughly speaking, means the loss of all organiz...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Deceased organ allocation: deciding early when to move fast

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The deceased donor waiting list for kidneys to transplant is congested: offers, which take time to evaluate, are often rejected, while cold ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

New/old paper, finally published, sadly still relevant: Kessler & Roth in AEJ:Policy

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 Here's a paper, just published this week, which reports (now among other things) a field-in-the-lab experiment begun in August 2010 (...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Kidneys and Controversies at Mt. Sinai hospital

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 I gave a talk yesterday at Mt. Sinai hospital. They had encouraged me to talk about controversies, which I happily did.  They were a sympat...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Opt-out defaults do not increase organ donation rates, in Public Health

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 No one said market design was going to be easy...(well, some people did, but it turns out it isn't.) Dallacker, M., L. Appelius, A. M. ...