Organ transplant policies need an overhaul!
INFORMS Journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management New Study Key Takeaways:
Matching supply and demand of organs can provide broader sharing in a way that results in greater transplant equity.
By indiscriminately enlarging the pool of supply locations from where patients can receive offers, they tend to become more selective, resulting in more offer rejections and less efficiency.
The model accounts for the variation of “incidence of disease” (i.e., demand) and “availability of deceased-donor organs” ...











