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(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n
For the roughly 15,000 people who need a liver transplant, it\u2019s a waiting game. With demand for donated livers far outstripping supply, patients may spend months or years on a transplant waitlist, their position in the line gradually improving as they get sicker. A recent study suggests that this system may be changing\u00a0but not necessarily for the better.<\/p>\n
In an effort to get or keep a good performance rating from the federal government, transplant centers have been labeling some patients \u201ctoo sick to transplant\u201d and dropping from the waitlist\u00a0some who may been viable candidates, the researchers\u00a0found. In addition, despite removing more sick patients from the waiting list, one-year survival rates for patients who received transplants didn\u2019t improve. Read article here…..<\/a><\/p>\n Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n
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