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Editorial
. 2022 Jun;79(6):897-900.
doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.11.005. Epub 2021 Dec 30.

Effect of Policy on Geographic Inequities in Kidney Transplantation

Vishnu S Potluri  1 , Roy D Bloom  2
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Editorial

Effect of Policy on Geographic Inequities in Kidney Transplantation

Vishnu S Potluri et al. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 Jun.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Comparison of geographic organ allocation under the old and new kidney allocation policies. The boundaries on this map of the contiguous United States represent the borders of the 57 Donation Service Areas (DSA). The DSA boundaries do not always conform to the borders of US states (eg, Pennsylvania, California). The stars represent examples of large metropolitan areas (4-pointed star, Los Angeles; 5-pointed star, Atlanta; 7-pointed star, Philadelphia). Under the old policy, the distribution of organs would have been essentially limited to within the DSA. The circles around the stars represent an approximately 250-nautical-mile radius around the donor hospital within which organs donated can be prioritized for allocation under the revised policy. Note that the new concentric boundaries can span multiple DSAs.
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