Editing Liver transplantation (section)

===Transplant Benefit Score===
The '''Transplant Benefit Score''' is an algorithmic [[medical scoring]] system used for making liver transplant waiting list decisions for the [[National Liver Offering Scheme]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name=FT>{{Cite news |last=Murgia |first=Madhumita |date=2023-11-09 |title=Algorithms are deciding who gets organ transplants. Are their decisions fair? |url=https://www.ft.com/content/5125c83a-b82b-40c5-8b35-99579e087951 |access-date=2024-11-17 |work=Financial Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=Elisa |last2=Taylor |first2=Rhiannon |last3=Gimson |first3=Alexander |last4=Thorburn |first4=Douglas |date=September 2024 |title=Transplant benefit-based offering of deceased donor livers in the United Kingdom |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0168827824002034 |journal=Journal of Hepatology |volume=81 |issue=3 |pages=471–478 |doi=10.1016/j.jhep.2024.03.020 |pmid=38521169 |issn=0168-8278|doi-access=free }}</ref> In 2023, an investigation by the ''[[Financial Times]]'' stated that the scoring system might result in younger patients not getting transplants under certain circumstances.<ref name="FT" /> A publication in ''[[The Lancet]]'' also showed that the TBS algorithm generated implausible results in some circumstances.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Attia |first1=Antony |last2=Rowe |first2=Ian A |last3=Harrison |first3=Ewen M |last4=Gordon-Walker |first4=Tim |last5=Stutchfield |first5=Ben M |date=March 2023 |title=Implausible algorithm output in UK liver transplantation allocation scheme: importance of transparency |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673623001149 |journal=The Lancet |language=en |volume=401 |issue=10380 |pages=911–912 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00114-9|pmid=36870362 }}</ref>