Your New Liver Is Only a Learjet Away: Part 3 Of 3

Forbes - Quotes David Axelrod, assistant professor of surgery and of community and family medicine, who conducted a study of liver transplant outcomes at small and large transplant programs, comparing the smallest third of programs (which transplanted a median of 21 patients per year) to the largest third of programs (which transplanted more than 90). The results showed that patients who received transplants at the smaller programs were 30 percent more likely to die in the first year after their transplant. "The differences were striking," says Axelrod, "but that does not mean all patients should head to large transplant centers, not with the way our current system is set up." (Axelrod also commented in Part 1 of the series.) Read more...