Redesign of US donor-liver network could boost transplants by several hundred per year
Friday, February 25, 2011 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers redesigned the U.S.'s haphazard donor-liver distribution network to better account for urban and rural population differences, geographic distance, and the anticipated supply of and demand for donor livers. They calculated a rearrangement could result in up to 14 percent more people each year receiving the transplants they need.