Although waitlist mortality is unacceptably high, nearly half of donor heart offers are rejected by pediatric heart transplant centers. ACTION and PHTS convened a multi-institutional donor decision discussion forum (DDDF) aimed at assessing donor acceptance practices and reducing practice variation.
Abstract Advanced Cardiac Therapies Improving Outcomes Network (ACTION) and Pediatric Heart Transplant Society (PHTS) convened a working group at the beginning of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim …
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This landmark Pediatric Heart Transplant Society study, “Outcomes of children bridged to heart transplantation with ventricular assist devices: a multi-institutional study,” was published in May 2006 in Circulation, a journal …
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This ACTION article, published in Pediatric Transplantation, describes the results of ACTION’s November 2019 Waitlist Outcomes Committee (WOC) meeting. The WOC committee used improvement science methodology to develop a six-step …
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