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Study: Busier hospitals have better heart transplant survival rates
Researchers at John Hopkins University have found that hospitals that perform heart transplants more frequently have higher survival rates than those with fewer transplants, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
According to the study, the overall death rate following a heart transplant is 12.6%. Facilities with fewer than five transplants performed in the years examined in the study had a higher rate of patients dying following the surgery than those who performed five or more. Death rates did not improve with more than 14 of the surgeries performed each year.
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