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Questions of accountability and transparency in the US organ donation and transplantation system

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  1. Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

    Macey L. Levan, Samantha Klitenic, Allan Massie, Brendan Parent, Sommer Gentry & Dorry Segev

  2. Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Macey L. Levan, Allan Massie, Brendan Parent, Arthur Caplan, Sommer Gentry & Dorry Segev

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D.S. was a member of the NASEM ad hoc committee that authored the report A Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution. M.L.L. and S.K. provided consultative services to NASEM to assist with the report. M.L.L. is a former member of the OPTN and UNOS board of directors.

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Levan, M.L., Klitenic, S., Massie, A. et al. Questions of accountability and transparency in the US organ donation and transplantation system. Nat Med 28, 1517–1518 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01859-3

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