Inside the preventable deaths that happened within a prominent transplant center.

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Inside the preventable deaths that happened within a prominent transplant center.

June 28, 2023

Blau M. ProPublica. June 14, 2023.

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Medical errors during organ transplants can have catastrophic consequences. This report describes the errors that contributed to failed transplants and patient deaths at one liver transplant center and the organizational-level factors that allowed these errors to continue for several years.

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