Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective

Itai Ashlagi () and Alvin Roth
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Itai Ashlagi: Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Management Science, 2021, vol. 67, issue 9, 5455-5478

Abstract: Many patients in need of a kidney transplant have a willing but incompatible (or poorly matched) living donor. Kidney exchange programs arrange exchanges among such patient-donor pairs, in cycles and chains of exchange, so that each patient receives a compatible kidney. Kidney exchange has become a standard form of transplantation in the United States and a few other countries, in large part because of continued attention to the operational details that arose as obstacles were overcome and new obstacles became relevant. We review some of the key operational issues in the design of successful kidney exchange programs. Kidney exchange has yet to reach its full potential, and the paper further describes some open questions that we hope will continue to attract attention from researchers interested in the operational aspects of dynamic exchange.

Keywords: kidney; exchange; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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