Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective
回顾了肾脏交换项目中的关键运营问题，包括如何设计交换周期和链以克服障碍，并指出未来研究的方向，对医疗运营研究者有参考价值。
Many patients in need of a kidney transplant have a willing but incompatible (or poorly matched) living donor. Kidney exchange programs arrange exchanges among such patient-donor pairs, in cycles and chains of exchange, so that each patient receives a compatible kidney. Kidney exchange has become a standard form of transplantation in the United States and a few other countries, in large part because of continued attention to the operational details that arose as obstacles were overcome and new obstacles became relevant. We review some of the key operational issues in the design of successful kidney exchange programs. Kidney exchange has yet to reach its full potential, and the paper further describes some open questions that we hope will continue to attract attention from researchers interested in the operational aspects of dynamic exchange. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, Special Section of Management Science: 65th Anniversary.