Modeling the optimal ethnic composition of an adult stem cell registryAuthor-Name: Blake, John T

Ken McTaggart and Donna Killeen

European Journal of Operational Research, 2018, vol. 264, issue 3, 884-893

Abstract: For patients suffering from a blood related disease, a stem cell transplant represents the best, and sometimes the only, possible treatment. Registries have been created throughout the world to match patients with stem cell donors. Canada's adult registry, OneMatch, was formed to meet the needs of Canadian patients. However, only 20–30 percent of unrelated adult stem cell transplants in Canada are sourced from Canadian donors. Self-sufficiency has proven difficult for OneMatch, in part, because the Canadian registry is dwarfed by other international registries with similar donor populations.

Keywords: OR in health services; Stem cell registry composition; Large scale optimization; Heuristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.05.015

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