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SUBMITTER: Wey A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6836690 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wey Andrew A Salkowski Nicholas N Kasiske Bertram L BL Skeans Melissa M Schaffhausen Cory R CR Gustafson Sally K SK Israni Ajay K AK Snyder Jon J JJ
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20180831 2
To improve accessibility of program-specific reports to patients, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients released a 5-tier system for categorizing 1-year posttransplant program evaluations. Whether this system predicts subsequent posttransplant outcomes at the time patients are waitlisted has been questioned. We investigated the association of tier at listing and the corresponding continuous score used for tier assignment, which ranges from 0 (poor outcomes) to 1 (good outcomes), with ...[more]