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The impact of insurance type on listing status and wait‐list mortality of patients with left ventricular assist devices as bridge to transplantation

AIMS: Adequate health insurance coverage is necessary for heart transplantation (HT) candidates. Prior studies have suggested inferior outcomes post HT with public health insurance. We sought to evaluate the effects of insurance type on transplantation rates, listing status and mortality prior to HT...

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Autores principales: Briasoulis, Alexandros, Akintoye, Emmanuel, Inampudi, Chakradhari, Hammoud, Aziz, Alvarez, Paulino
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7261523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32135039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.12655