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Changes in US heart transplant waitlist activity, volume during COVID-19 pandemic

Peer-Reviewed Publication

JAMA Network

What The Study Did: National and regional changes in waitlist inactivations and additions, donor recovery and heart transplant volume during the COVID-19 pandemic are described in this observational study.

Authors: Ersilia M. DeFilippis, M.D., of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.2696)

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