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ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2018

Kidney transplant outcomes: Position in the match-run does not seem to matter beyond other donor risk factors.

J B Cohen, J Shults, D S Goldberg, P L Abt, D L Sawinski, P P Reese

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Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Donor sequence number is not associated with worse lung transplant outcomes regardless of transplant center case volume.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

J B CohenRenal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
J ShultsCenter for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
D S GoldbergCenter for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
P L AbtDepartment of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
D L SawinskiRenal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
P P ReeseRenal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Kidney TransplantationTissue and Organ ProcurementAllograftsHumansRisk FactorsTissue Donorsclinical research/practicedonors and donation: deceasededitorial/personal viewpointkidney (allograft) function/dysfunctionkidney transplantation/nephrologyorgan acceptanceorgan allocationorgan procurement and allocationpatient survival

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PMID29673067

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