Is it too early to investigate survival outcomes of the new US heart allocation system?

What it found

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Modernizing the national transplant database.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2025
   Review
2. Association of the 2018 U.S. Heart Allocation Policy Change and the Survival Benefit of Heart Transplantation.JACC. Heart failure · 2025
   Observational
3. Impact of the 2018 UNOS Heart Transplant Policy Changes on Patient Outcomes.JACC. Heart failure · 2023
   Review
4. UNOS policy change benefits high-priority patients without harming those at low priority.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022
   Article
5. An updated estimate of posttransplant survival after implementation of the new donor heart allocation policy.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022
   Article
6. Better Is the Enemy of Good: Ever-changing Heart Transplant Allocation.Transplantation direct · 2021
   Article
7. Outcomes in the 2018 UNOS donor heart allocation system: A perspective on disparate analyses.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2020
   Article
8. Reassessing Recipient Mortality Under the New Heart Allocation System: An Updated UNOS Registry Analysis.JACC. Heart failure · 2020
   Article

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  An early investigation of outcomes with the new 2018 donor heart allocation system in the United States.2020

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