Waitlist Mortality for Children Listed for Heart Transplant in the United States: How are We Doing?

Risk stratification and transplant benefit in children listed for heart transplant in the United States.

BACKGROUND The sickest children among those listed for heart transplant (HT) are also at higher risk of post-transplant mortality. We hypothesized that transplant benefit, defined as percentage reduction in risk of 1-year mortality on receiving HT, increases with higher risk of wait-list mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed all children aged <18 years listed for first HT in the United S...

Waiting list mortality among children listed for heart transplantation in the United States.

BACKGROUND Children listed for heart transplantation face the highest waiting list mortality in solid-organ transplantation medicine. We examined waiting list mortality since the pediatric heart allocation system was revised in 1999 to determine whether the revised allocation system is prioritizing patients optimally and to identify specific high-risk populations that may benefit from emerging ...

How are we doing?

Measuring the performance of community safety partnerships 'Safe and sound', published in May 2000, reported the findings of an Accounts Commission study of community safety partnerships. s The report identified the progress made to date, highlighted good practice and made a number of recommendations. The report found that across Scotland, community safety strategies are generally at an early s...

Zika in the United States: How Are We Preparing?

Once considered an inconsequential illness, Zika is now linked with serious health effects including microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. As the virus makes its way northward, U.S. public health agencies are doing their best to prepare.

Management of congestive heart failure: how well are we doing?