Regulations' Impact on Donor and Recipient Selection for Liver Transplantation: How Should Outcomes be Measured and MELD Exception Scores be Considered?

How important is social support in determining patients’ suitability for transplantation? Results from a National Survey of Transplant Clinicians

“…Clinicians assign significant importance to objectively measured factors influencing patient and graft survival rates, in accordance with regulatory agencies that require minimum risk-adjusted outcomes. 28 Yet, little is known about how transplant clinicians consider subjective factors like social support when determining whether to waitlist patients for transplantation. Our findings reveal that social support is highly influential in shaping the opinions of medical/surgical providers and psychosocial evaluators alike.…”