... for Organ Sharing (UNOS). The government has delegated much policymaking authority to UNOS, although the author demonstrates that this is not required by the applicable legislation. The article raises questions about the relationship between UNOS and the federal government, about potential conflicts between...

... to be addressed by social institutions other than UNOS: access to the waiting list for donated organs and the role of ability to pay in extrarenal transplants. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 References Annas , G. 1988 . The Paradoxes of Organ Transplantation. American Journal...

... of San Francisco Law Review 35 : 751 -782. Harper, A. M., S. E. Taranto, E. B. Edwards, and O. P. Daily. 2000 . An Update on a Successful Simulation Project: The UNOS Liver Allocation Model. In Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference , ed. J. A. Jones, R. R. Barton, K. Kang, and P...

... by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS UNOS monitors the compliance with these rules by all procurement agencies and transplant centers. I* Obtaining an organ is currently a two-stage process: the patient must first be accepted on a waiting list maintained...

... Centers. New England Journal of Medicine 308 ( 4 ): 191 -94. United Network for Organ Sharing. 1987 . Bylaws. Richmond, VA: UNOS. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. 1978 . National Health Planning Guidelines. Federal Register 43 ( 60 ): 13040 -50. U.S. Department...

... creates policies and tracks outcomes, its counterpart, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), is responsible for maintaining an updated recipient waiting list, implementing policies specifying how donor organs are allocated, and matching donor organs with suitable recipients (UNOS 2003...

... of the federally mandated and designated organ procurement and transplantation network, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); and in the recommendations of the congressionally mandated Task Force.on Organ Transplantation, upon which federal policy has largely been based. As the articles...

... of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28 : 195 -215. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Online. 2002 . Critical Data . www.unos.org (accessed February 18, 2002). ———. 2004 . Organ Transplantation and Donation Facts at a Glance . www.unos.org/inTheNews/factsheets.asp (accessed May 11, 2004...

... Medical Association 250 ( 8 ): 1065 -68. Toronto Lung Transplant Group. 1988 . Experience with Single-Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Fibrosis. Journal of the American Medical Association 259 ( 15 ): 2258 -62. United Network for Organ Sharing. 1987 . UNOS Annual Report. Richmond, VA...

... contractor, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); organ procurement agencies throughout the country; and transplant hos- pitals, physicians, and other providers. Much of the description is by way of following a hypothetical transplantation transaction from donation through surgery and subsequent...

... contractor, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); organ procurement agencies throughout the country; and transplant hos- pitals, physicians, and other providers. Much of the description is by way of following a hypothetical transplantation transaction from donation through surgery and subsequent...

... of transplantation in the United States Books 1133 and a summary account of the current national system of distribution administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); its private contractor, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS); organ...

... organ allo- cation system under the auspices of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), “making this one of few countries with an organized national procurement system” (Modarress 1992: 551). UNOS administers the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) for the col- lection...

... presented at a conference, “Medical Malpractice: Can the Private Sector Find Relief?” held in Washington, DC in February 1985. Copies will be available from Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC 27706, at $12. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) prepares a periodic Update for persons...

... attempts to export the kidney. Most OPAs employ the UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) list of transplant recipients to locate a potential recipient. Each OPA has its own methodology for choosing which other agency to call first about a kidney. The first consideration is generally the apparent...

... in this volume. Simmons , R. 1977 . The Gift of Life. New York: Wiley. Simmons , R. 1984 . Manual of Vascular Access Organ Donation and Transplantation. New York: Springer Verlag. United Network for Organ Sharing. 1987 . UNOS Update 3 ( 6 ): 1 . The Organization...

... 2003). According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the federally funded agency that oversees and tracks the process of organ donation, as of 5:46 p.m. (EST), May 6, 2007, there were 96,381 people in the United States on the waiting list for a donor organ. According to the UNOS...

... expect that com- munities with very different demographic configurations and social norms might wish to make quite different choices about priorities and di~tribution 52. See United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) policies (31 May 1988), sections 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7. For a general critique...

... and Transplantation Network (OPTN), a chartered entity administered under federal contract by a nonprofit organization, now the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). While hearings were being held on the proposed legislation that would eventually become the National Organ Transplantation Act, a contro...

... of Minnesota press. National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. 1989 . UNOS Update 5 (3): 14. Perez , L. M. , B. Schulman, F. Davis, L. Olson, V. A. Tellis, and A. J. Matas. 1988 . Organ Donation in Three Major American Cities with Large Latino and Black Populations. Transplantation...