When Good Intentions Turn Bad: A Need for Course Correction

Years of research of candidates for heart transplantation led to crafting the recent donor heart allocation system in the United States, implemented in October 2018, which was designed to allow more equitable organ allocation of patients awaiting heart transplantation, to reduce mortality in the waiting list and to preserve excellent outcomes post-heart transplant. In this issue of the Journal, Cogswell and colleagues examine key changes in patient characteristics and post transplant outcomes in the period of 3 years before and 5.4 months after the change of the US allocation algorithm.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research