Access to Heart Transplantation: A Proper Analysis of the Competing Risks of Death and Transplantation Is Required to Optimize Graft Allocation

Access to Heart Transplantation: A Proper Analysis of the Competing Risks of Death and Transplantation Is Required to Optimize Graft Allocation

Background. Heart allocation systems are usually urgency-based, offering grafts to candidates at high risk of waitlist mortality. In the context of a revision of the heart allocation rules, we determined observed predictors of 1-year waitlist mortality in France, considering the competing risk of tr...

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Main Authors: Christelle Cantrelle, MS, Camille Legeai, MD, MS, Aurélien Latouche, PhD, Philippe Tuppin, MD, PhD, Carine Jasseron, PhD, Laurent Sebbag, MD, Olivier Bastien, MD, PhD, Richard Dorent, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2017-08-01
Series:Transplantation Direct
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000000711

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