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Operations Research for Health Care 3 (2014) 40–45 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Operations Research for Health Care journal homepage: /locate/orhc A queuing model to address waiting time inconsistency in solid-organ transplantation David A. Stanford a,∗, Jung Min Lee a , Natasha Chandok b,c , Vivian McAlister b,d a Department of Statistical Actuarial Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St. N, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada b Multi-Organ Transplant Program, London Health Sciences Centre, 1151 Richmond St. N, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada c Department of Medicine, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St. N, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada d Department of Surgery, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St. N, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Organ transplantation is a vital therapy for the treatment of many patients. Due to blood compatibil- Received 26 March 2013 ity rules, there has been a pattern in many jurisdictions for differing organ types where recipients of Accepted 8 January 2014 blood type O experience longer waiting times than those of other blood types, partly due to cross- Available online 30 January 2014 transplantation of too many O organs to compatible donors of other blood types. In response to this, a recent development in some jurisdictions is a change in the rules to insist upon ABO-identical transplan- Keywords: tation. The literature review herein enables us to