Regulations' Impact on Donor and Recipient Selection for Liver Transplantation: How Should Outcomes be Measured and MELD Exception Scores be Considered?

AMA J Ethics

Section chief of solid organ transplant surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and an associate professor of surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a regional councilor for the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) and a member of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/UNOS Membership and Professional Standards Committee.

Published: February 2016

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.2.pfor1-1602DOI Listing

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