Drezga-Kleiminger, M., Wilkinson, D., Douglas, T., Demaree-Cotton, J., Koplin, J., & Savulescu, J. (2025). Should We Use Behavioural Predictions in Organ Allocation? Bioethics, 39(8), 737–747. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13440
In "172 UK adults... presented with possible factors relevant to liver allocation, most thought predictions of higher medication adherence (78.6%) and lower future alcohol use (76.5%) should be used but not predictions of lower future criminality (24.7%) and higher societal contribution (21.2%). Randomising participants into two groups, 69.8% of participants found deprioritising a patient based on their predicted medication adherence acceptable (91.9% found a nonbehavioural prediction acceptable). We did not identify an ethically relevant difference between behavioural predictions and other medical predictions already used in organ allocation. Our sample of participants also appeared to support behavioural predictions in this context."
Is it more problematic for organ donations to be allocated based on receivers' behaviors (such as alcohol use) than on medical predictions such as probability of survival?
Not according to these UK adults (N= 172): doi.org/10.1111%2Fbi...
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