As applied to the medical ethics of transplantation, justice refers to allocation of organs to those patients in the most immediate need. Issues of justice are balanced by concerns of utility that, in this context, refer to allocating organs to those individuals who will make the "best" use of them. An example would be whether a potential recipient facing imminent death without a transplant but with a poorer chance of long-term survival should be given a transplant in preference to another individual with less immediate risk of death but a better long-term prognosis.