As applied to the medical ethics of transplantation, utility refers to allocating organs to those individuals who will make the "best" use of them. Issues of utility are balanced by concerns for justice that, in this context, refer to allocation of organs to those patients in the most immediate need. 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.