@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hj2n1.11, ISBN = {9780813548074}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hj2n1.11}, abstract = {The most intractable problem facing kidney transplantation over the past several decades has been an unrelenting shortage of organs. Transplant patients not only live longer than patients on dialysis but also enjoy far better lives. Surgical techniques and anti-rejection drugs have improved to the point that 95 percent of kidney grafts from living donors and almost 90 percent from cadaveric donors survive the one-year mark.¹ A forty-year-old patient has close to a 90 percent chance of surviving five years post transplant.² The indispensable but missing element remains the organ. Some 80,130 people are now on the waiting list for a}, author = {Sheila M. Rothman and Natassia M. Rozario}, booktitle = {Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age}, pages = {100--115}, publisher = {Rutgers University Press}, title = {The Impact of Information Technology on Organ Donation: Private Values in a Public World}, year = {2010} }