Steve Drekic
Abstract
In many jurisdictions, organ allocation is done on the basis of the health status of the patient, either explicitly or implicitly. This presentation presents a Matrix-analytic priority model in which customers self-promote to the higher priority level, to take into account changes in health status over time. In the first variant, all patients arrive as "regular" customers to the queue, but as the health of a patient degrades, their status is promoted to "priority" to reflect the increased urgency of the transplant. Performance measures such as the mean and distribution of the time until transplant are obtained.
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