Amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, the miraculous breakthroughs of multiple effective
and safe COVID-19 vaccines offer hopeful prospects. Yet, the endgame of the pandemic is …

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely
healthcare topics (eg, organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) …

In recent decades, healthcare providers have faced mounting pressure to effectively
manage highly perishable and limited medical resources. This article offers a …

There are disparities in access to livers based on transplant patients' height, which
disproportionately affects Hispanics, Asians, and women (across all ethnicities), because …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence in prison systems is 10 times higher than in the general
population, and hence prison systems offer a unique opportunity to control the HCV …

We study the efficacy of the donor-priority rule in promoting deceased organ donation under
blood-type compatibility constraints in both theory and the laboratory. Compared with an …

Problem definition: Deceased-donor kidney transplant candidates in the United States are
ranked according to characteristics of both the donor and the recipient. We seek the ranking …

Problem definition: Unoccupied waiting feels longer than it actually is. Service providers
operationalize this psychological principle by offering entertainment options in waiting …

Legislation, in the form of presumed consent, has been argued to boost organ donation but
most evidence disregards the practice of seeking relative's consent, which can either …

Every year, nearly 5,000 patients die while waiting for kidney transplants, and yet an
estimated 3,500 procured kidneys are discarded. Such a polarized coexistence of dire …