Organ donor data falsification

fabrication and falsification of data

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Donor Organ Allocation

Purpose. Compare renal transplant long-term outcomes among recipients aged 60 years or older with those in younger patients. Patients and methods. We analyzed 103 transplants in recipients above 60 years of age for the influence of key factors related to the graft and patient. The results were compared with 1060 transplant recipients aged 18 to 59 years. Results. The mean ages were 62.93 and 40...

Letter of apology for falsification of data.

To the editor: Re: Poehlman ET, Goran MJ, Gardner AW, Ades PA, Arcerio PJ, Katzman-Rooks SN, Montgomery SM, Toth MJ, and Sutherland PT. Determinants of decline in resting metabolic rate in aging females. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 264: E450–E455, 1993. In the referenced paper, we reported cross-sectional changes in a number of physiological and metabolic markers in a cohort of 183 women aged...

Donor Organ Management: Literature Review

The organ donor crisis: the missed organ donor potential from the accident and emergency departments.

The critical shortage of cadaveric donor organs for transplant purposes is a worldwide concern. The disparity between the number of cadaveric organs donated for transplant purposes and those patients awaiting transplant operations continues to widen. This article reports on the findings of an audit of deaths undertaken in 10 accident and emergency (A&E) departments in North Thames region, UK. T...