A Broader View of Designing the Liver Allocation System

We consider the problem of designing an efficient system for allocating donated livers to patients waiting for transplantation. The trade-off between medical urgency and efficiency is at the heart of the liver allocation problem. We model the transplant waiting list as a multiclass fluid model of ov...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Operations research 2012-07, Vol.60 (4), p.757-770
Hauptverfasser:	Akan, Mustafa, Alagoz, Oguzhan, Ata, Baris, Erenay, Fatih Safa, Said, Adnan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Allocations Analysis Applied sciences Biological and medical sciences Control theory Cost control CROSSCUTTING AREAS Donation of organs, tissues, etc Efficiency Epidemiology Exact sciences and technology Firm modelling fluid models General aspects Health care policy health policy design Health status healthcare operations Kidneys Laws, regulations and rules Life expectancy Linear programming Liver liver allocation system Liver transplantation Liver transplants Marginal benefits Mathematical programming Medical policy Medical research Medical sciences Medical waiting lists Methodology Modeling Mortality Operational research and scientific management Operational research. Management science Operations management Operations research Optimal policy organ transplantation Patients Performance evaluation Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Queuing theory. Traffic theory Shadow prices Simulation Studies Transplantation Transplants & implants
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