Lung Transplant Outcomes Better at High-Volume Hospitals

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"Our hope is that this evidence will be useful in establishing budgets and staffing objectives so that low-volume centers, too, can steadily improve their patient outcomes in lung transplantation," Shah said.

In 2007, more than 1,400 lung transplants were performed in the United States. Thirty-nine percent of those patients have survived for at least a year, and 6 percent died within a month of surgery. About 2,000 Americans are on lung transplant waiting lists, and 90 others are waiting for both a heart and a lung.

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The American Lung Association has more about lung transplants.

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