Extending the Possibilities of Kidney Exchange with Compatible Pairs

dc.contributor.author	Mital, Karna
dc.date.accessioned	2011-04-20T19:22:37Z
dc.date.available	2011-04-20T19:22:37Z
dc.date.issued	2011-04-20
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3567
dc.description	Honors Thesis	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Kidney exchange enables incompatible pairs to exchange kidneys so each recipient can receive a transplant. Compatible pairs have not yet been incorporated in any kidney exchange program. The present study incorporates compatible pairs in cycles-only mechanism, and focuses on the HLA match aspect of match quality. When 27.7% of compatible pairs participate, between 50-67% more incompatible pairs can be matched than would be in a pool of only incompatible pairs (at the national level, 1000-1330 more transplants per year), and com- patible pairs see an average improvement in match quality of 2/3 of one HLA match.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Kidney exchange	en_US
dc.subject	compatible pairs	en_US
dc.subject	altruistically un- balanced exchange	en_US
dc.subject	live donor kidney transplantation	en_US
dc.subject	match quality	en_US
dc.subject	HLA match	en_US
dc.title	Extending the Possibilities of Kidney Exchange with Compatible Pairs	en_US
dc.department	Economics	en_US