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Fact-check: The NBER working paper 'Improving Organ Procurement Operations' by Hammaad Adam, Nikhil Agarwal, and Marzyeh Ghassemi exists and matches the summary exactly, analyzing four OPOs and 35,856 donors from 2016-2021 with 39% recovery rate. Recent X posts from the official NBER account and others confirm the study's findings and key statistics in real time, with no contradictions. NBER is a highly reputable source.

Improving Organ Procurement Operations -- by Hammaad Adam, Nikhil Agarwal, Marzyeh Ghassemi

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A structural econometric study of four US organ procurement organizations (OPOs) covering 35,856 potential donors between 2016 and 2021 finds that organs were recovered from only 39% of transplantable donors. Researchers identify that 16% of missed donation opportunities stem from conservative OPO preferences and 12% from miscalibrated probability estimates, with the remainder due to family declines. Counterfactual modeling suggests that increasing approach rates could recover organs from 43% mo

Improving Organ Procurement Operations -- by Hammaad Adam, Nikhil Agarwal, Marzyeh Ghassemi

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