Hospitals Given Latitude to Select Heart Transplant Candidates Don't Always Prioritize Sickest Patients: University of Chicago Medicine
November 14, 2019
November 14, 2019
CHICAGO, Illinois, Nov. 14 [TNSmedicalresearch-Journal of the American Medical Association] -- The University of Chicago Medicine issued the following news release:
Analysis of more than 29,000 adults listed on the national heart transplant registry from 2006 to 2015 shows how rules that give hospitals discretion in determining who gets a transplant result in large discrepancies in how sick patients are when they receive heart transplants at hospitals across the United States.
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Analysis of more than 29,000 adults listed on the national heart transplant registry from 2006 to 2015 shows how rules that give hospitals discretion in determining who gets a transplant result in large discrepancies in how sick patients are when they receive heart transplants at hospitals across the United States.
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