Public Perceptions of the Importance of Prognosis in Allocating Transplantable Livers to Children

Peter A. Ubel and George Loewenstein

Medical Decision Making, 1996, vol. 16, issue 3, 234-241

Abstract: Background. The system to allocate scarce transplantable livers has been criticized for not giving enough weight to the prognoses of the patients receiving the transplants, but little research has been done looking at how the public weights the relative impor tances of efficacy and equity in distributing the organs. Methods. This study was an experimental survey of prospective jurors asked to distribute transplantable livers among transplant candidates grouped according to their prognoses. The relative prog noses of the transplant candidates were varied across survey versions. Results. As the prognostic difference between transplant groups increased, the subjects became less likely to distribute the organs equally between them (p

Date: 1996
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