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Columbia Scores Top in the Nation for Complex Procedures for Heart, Lung, and Colorectal Care
… heart failure and lung cancer surgery. Hospitals received points towards their overall rankings if they were nationally … – the more specialties and the higher their rank, the more points they got – and also if they were rated "high …
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A Randomized, Open-Label, Multicenter, Controlled Study to Assess Safety and Efficacy of ELAD in Subjects with Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis (AAH)
… as death or the first observed increase of at least 5 points from End of Study Day 1 MELD score (for both the ELAD … End of Study Days 28 and 91 following Randomization. Trial Website: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01471028 …
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A Volunteer Surgeon Talks About His First Day Fighting COVID-19 on the Front Lines
… away. I have the Wall. The patients are mostly going to die, but not today. I gather my boys, I gather my troops. … The religion that we are not going to let these people die. I make everyone put a big piece of tape with their first … know, that 70% of our patients on Core E are going to die here. That there are families outside this hospital, …
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Caracas to Santo Domingo: Creating Access to Pediatric Liver Transplant from the Ground, Up
… programs, nearly every child in need of a liver will die because their country’s borders denote no access. It’s …
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What We’re Reading: 07/24/20
… Black Children Are More Likely to Die After Surgery Than White Peers, Study Shows Researchers … will we make swift, transformative change? ( From nytimes.com ) Confusion Spreads Over System to Determine Priority … out: What We’re Reading: 07/10/20 What We’re Reading: 06/26/20 What We’re Reading: 06/19/20 What We’re Reading: …
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How Close Is Xenotransplantation, Really?
… receive an organ transplant, and an average of 17 people die every day on the waiting list. The promise of … he passed away about two months later. But Dr. Sykes points out that this does not mean that the … to whom we cannot offer a liver transplant and they die. That's a real heartbreaking moment knowing that this …
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Can Data Help You Find the Best Heart Surgeon?
… Patients and their families can use the public reporting website to search through centers and filter by each center’s … same on paper as a center where 100 out of 1,000 patients die from a procedure. In addition, while the STS database can … have and base the conversation of outcomes around those points. “Our job is to know our own data, but tailor our …
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Lung Cancer in Women
… in the U.S., as well as one of the most fatal. More women die each year from lung cancer than breast cancer and …
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