Inefficiency in Cadaveric Organ Procurement.
The shortage of cadaveric human organs made available for transplantation has reached critical proportions and is now causing over 6000 deaths each year in the United States alone. Economically, this shortage appears to stem from at least two principal underlying causes, both of which are attributab...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 13 - 27 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2006
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=21994942&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 21994942 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00384038 SEJ jtl: Southern Economic Journal issn: 00384038 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2006 vid: 73 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 21994942 10.2307/20111871 ppf: 13 ppct: 14 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 936KB tig: atl: Inefficiency in Cadaveric Organ Procurement. aug: au: Beard, Randolph Kaserman, David L. Saba, Richard P. affil: Department of Economics, College of Business Building, Auburn University su: United States Supply & demand Mortality Organs (Anatomy) Organ donors Organ & tissue transplantation laws sug: subj: Supply & demand Mortality United States Organs (Anatomy) Organ donors Organ & tissue transplantation laws ab: The shortage of cadaveric human organs made available for transplantation has reached critical proportions and is now causing over 6000 deaths each year in the United States alone. Economically, this shortage appears to stem from at least two principal underlying causes, both of which are attributable to the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act: (i) a legal prohibition on payments to organ donors and/or their surviving family members; and (ii) the legislatively mandated structure of the organ procurement industry, which specifies a group of nonprofit regional monopsonists as collection agents. Here, we focus on some consequences of the latter restriction. Using a frontier methodology, we estimate the magnitude of the inefficiencies exhibited by the individual procurement agencies (relative to the most efficient) after controlling for exogenous factors. Our findings show that, even if these inefficiencies could (somehow) be completely eliminated, the organ shortage would still persist. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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