Does the UNOS Heart Transplant Allocation System Favor Men Over Women?

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 347-355

  Hsich, Eileen M ^a,b   Starling, Randall C ^a,b   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a,b   Singh, Tajinder P ^c,d   Young, James B ^a   Gorodeski, Eiran Z ^a   Taylor, David O ^a   Schold, Jesse D ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Mortality; Sex; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER BIAS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORTHOTOPIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84905462634     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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