“We found a striking pattern. When a switch occurs on the same day, the mortality rate for those patients rises sharply — from about 4.5 percent to 7.2 percent,” Liu said in the press release. “If you ...
When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8%, according to new Virginia Tech research. The findings ...
A Virginia Tech study found that transplant surgeons who switched between different organ types in consecutive operations saw a 14.8% increase in one-year patient mortality. The research, published in ...