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SUBMITTER: Maxwell BG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4428280 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maxwell B G BG Levitt J E JE Goldstein B A BA Mooney J J JJ Nicolls M R MR Zamora M M Valentine V V Weill D D Dhillon G S GS
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20140910 10
Implementation of the lung allocation score (LAS) in 2005 led to transplantation of older and sicker patients without altering 1-year survival. However, long-term survival has not been assessed and emphasizing the 1-year survival metric may actually sustain 1-year survival while not reflecting worsening longer-term survival. Therefore, we assessed overall and conditional 1-year survival; and the effect of crossing the 1-year threshold on hazard of death in three temporal cohorts: historical (199 ...[more]