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Article: Small liver transplant centers have higher mortality rates-UNOS study.
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- January 14, 2000
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Centers performing 20 or fewer liver transplants annually have mortality rates that are significantly higher than those of centers doing more than 20 such procedures each year, but the public is unaware of these differences, according to a study in the December 30, 1999 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
"The 1-year mortality rate for the low-volume centers [during the period between January 1, 1992 and April 30, 1994] was 25.9%, as compared with 20% for the high-volume centers," reported Erick Edwards, PhD of UNOS and co-authors from the University of California at San Francisco, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio, and the University of Iowa ...