Sentences with phrase «lung transplantation center»
The study also confirmed the findings of earlier studies of lung transplantation center volume and mortality.
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To continue to improve long - term results after lung transplantation, the authors suggest that better collaboration is needed between the transplantation centers and the local doctors and hospitals attended by patients for their ongoing aftercare.
High - volume lung transplant centers have lower transplantation costs and their patients are less likely to be readmitted within 30 days of leaving the hospital following surgery, according to a new study of more than 3,000 Medicare patients who received lung transplants.
The average cost of lung transplantation across all centers was $ 135,622.
Lung transplantation cost at low - volume centers was 11.6 percent higher than high - volume centers.
Shorter adults are also more likely to be placed on mechanical ventilation while they wait for lung transplantation, said lead author Jessica Sell, MPH, of the Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
UT Southwestern was one of 16 medical centers across the country — and the only one in Texas — participating in a national clinical trial of the technology, which was aimed at significantly expanding the number of donor lungs available for transplantation.