National pilot program facilitates kidney paired-donation transplants

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 13:31 in Mathematics & Economics

A computer algorithm matched living kidney donors with medically compatible transplant candidates late last month as the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) began a national pilot program to increase the number of kidney paired-donation (KPD) transplants.

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