Organ Procurement and Transplantation:

Assessing Current Policies and the Potential Impact of the DHHS Final Rule

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Publication Year:1999

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Committee on Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy, Institute of Medicine
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Each day, nearly 60 Americans receive a transplanted kidney, liver, or other organ-a literal "second chance at life"-but 11 others die waiting for an organ transplant. The number of donors, although rising, is not growing fast enough to meet the ...
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Front Matter	i-xxii
Executive Summary	1-16	(skim)
1 Introduction	17-30	(skim)
2 Current Policies and Practices	31-38	(skim)
3 Access to Transplantation	39-48	(skim)
4 Organ Donation	49-60	(skim)
5 Analysis of Waiting Times	61-90	(skim)
6 Organ Failure and Patient Survival	91-122	(skim)
7 Costs	123-130	(skim)
8 Oversight and Review	131-136	(skim)
References	137-144	(skim)
Appendix A: Data Sources and Methods	145-156	(skim)
Appendix B: Guide to Summary Tables	157-182	(skim)
Appendix C: Current Liver Allocation Policies	183-198	(skim)
Appendix D: The Final Rule	199-214	(skim)
Appendix E: Committee and Staff Biographies	215-224	(skim)
Index	225-232	(skim)

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Each day, nearly 60 Americans receive a transplanted kidney, liver, or other organ-a literal "second chance at life"-but 11 others die waiting for an organ transplant. The number of donors, although rising, is not growing fast enough to meet the increasing demand. Intended to improve the current system of organ procurement and allocation, the "Final Rule," a 1998 regulation issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, sparked further controversy with its attempts to eliminate the apparent geographic disparities in the time an individual must wait for an organ.

This book assesses the potential impact of the Final Rule on organ transplantation. It also presents new, original analyses of data, and assesses medical practices, social and economic observations, and other information on: access to transplantation services for low-income populations and racial and ethnic minority groups; organ donation rates; waiting times for transplantation; patient survival rates and organ failure rates leading to retransplantation; and cost of organ transplantation services.

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