Showing posts with label waiting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waiting. Show all posts
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 ...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

Pediatric Heart Transplants: rethinking the waitlist, by Power, Sweat...Almond et al.

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 Here's a paper on the design of the waitlist for pediatric heart transplants.  It's accompanied by an editorial in the journal, and...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Impact of prioritization on kidney and liver allocation in Israel

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      Israel's  Organ Transplantation Law grants some priority on waiting lists for transplants to candidates who are first-degree relat...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Increasing kidney transplants by reducing discards of risky kidneys

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  Kidneys from deceased donors are too often discarded. Dr. Joshua Mezrich , a transplant surgeon at U. Wisconsin, writes in Stat about how ...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Experiments for organ allocation (an idea whose time may be coming)

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 Experiments to improve how deceased donor organs are allocated to waiting patients seem like a good idea... OPTN Task Force sets goal of ac...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Pilot projects to speed deceased donor organ allocation

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I won't use the word "experiments" for fear of the evil eye, but the OPTN is planning to authorize 'pilot programs' to...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Waitlist equity, when not everyone can wait a long time, by Afshin Nikzad and Philipp Strack

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 Patients waiting for deceased donor kidneys are given priority in part by how long they have been on dialysis, while patients waiting for l...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Tonya Ingram (1991-2022), health activist, died while waiting for a kidney

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 Tonya Ingram, a poet and health activist who testified in Congress about the long waiting list for kidney transplants, died last month whil...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Patient preferences for taking an offered kidney versus waiting for a better one

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  Here's a paper whose title announces in its first two words that it's unusual for the transplant literature: "Patient Prefere...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Returning to your place in the queue following a failed kidney transplant

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 Here's a forthcoming paper that proposes that rejections of marginal kidneys could be reduced if recipients were guaranteed a shorter w...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Queuing for ridesharing and organ allocation

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  Queues for ridesharing drivers at airports (where some trips are much better than others) lead to lots of rejected trips by those at the h...
Monday, December 6, 2021

Deceased organ allocation in the U.S., moving towards a more continuous system--Martha Pavlakis in Transplantation

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 In the latest issue of Transplantation a clear description of how the transplant community is planning to move towards a more continuous w...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Counterbalancing Learning and Strategic Incentives in Allocation Markets by Kang, Monachou, Koren, and Ashlagi

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 Here's a model with a new perspective on deceased organ waiting lists... Counterbalancing Learning and Strategic Incentives in Allocati...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Alternative kidney waitlist designs, by Agarwal, Ashlagi, Rees, Somaini, and Waldinger in Econometrica

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  Here's a paper that seeks to take into account that patients waiting for a deceased organ transplant are forward looking, and make dec...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Vaccine delivery improving, with congestion

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  A statewide vaccine appointment list is a good idea, but it can crash: Massachusetts Vaccination Website Crash: What Went Wrong?   The sta...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Multiple queues for Covid vaccines, as pharmacies join the supply chain

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  It is good news that pharmacies are now being included among the places that can dispense Covid vaccinations , because not everyone is con...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Covid has slowed transplants in the UK

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The Evening Standard has the story: Organ transplant waiting list jumps to five-year high due to pandemic, new NHS figures show by Naomi Ack...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Confusion in NYC high school wait lists

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In August, the New York City Department of Education announced a change in the school choice assignment process--without announcing any det...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Transplantation rates for patients in non-profit versus for-profit dialysis centers

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From JAMA,September 10, 2019  Volume 322, Number 10: J::AMA September 10, 2019 Volume 322, Number 10 Association Between Dialysis Facili...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Waitlists in NYC school choice--early reflections on yesterday's initial announcements

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Yesterday the New York City Department of Education announced a change in the school choice assignment process--I gather that after one rou...