These white papers are provided by the OPTN Ethics Committee for informational purposes to the OPTN Board of Directors and are intended for the operations of the OPTN. They have not been adopted as OPTN policy and do not carry the monitoring or enforcement implications of policy.
- Ethical analysis of normothermic regional perfusion (PDF - 896 KB) (1/10/2024)
- Transparency in Program Selection (PDF - 731 KB) (1/5/2023)
- Ethical considerations of continuous distribution in organ allocation (PDF - 765 KB)
- General considerations in assessment for transplant candidacy (Effective 7/15/2021)
- Ethical implications of multi-organ transplants (PDF - 1018 KB) (6/2019)
- Manipulating waiting list priority (PDF - 256 KB) (6/2018)
- Living donation by persons with certain fatal diseases (12/2017)
- Ethical considerations of imminent death donation (12/2016)
- Split versus whole liver transplantation (12/2016)
- Ethics of deceased organ donor recovery (12/2016)
- Ethical principles in the allocation of human organs (6/2015)
- Ethical principles of pediatric organ allocation (6/2014)
- Living non-directed organ donation (6/2014)
- Convicted criminals and transplant evaluation (1/2014)
- General considerations in assessment for transplant candidacy (1/2014)
- The ethics of organ donation from condemned prisoners (1/2014)
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