Unintended Consequences of the New National Kidney Allocation Policy in the United States

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2465-2469

  Tambur, A R ^a   Haarberg, K M K ^a   Friedewald, J J ^a   Leventhal, J R ^a   Cusick, M F ^a   Jaramillo, A ^b   Abecassis, M M ^a   Kaplan, B ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ethics and public policy; kidney transplantation nephrology; organ allocation; organ procurement and allocation; Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DP ANTIGEN; HLA DPA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DPB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HLA DRB3 ANTIGEN; HLA DRB4 ANTIGEN; HLA DRB5 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALLOANTIBODY; HLA-DPA1 ANTIGEN; HLA-DPB1 ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DONOR SELECTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEROLOGY; UNITED STATES; DONOR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TEST; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; TRANSPLANTATION;

FLOW CYTOMETRY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-DP ALPHA-CHAINS; HLA-DP BETA-CHAINS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; ISOANTIBODIES; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939566617     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13381     Document Type: Article

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