Open AccessPatient Travel Distance and Post Lung Transplant Survival in the United States: A Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Wayne Tsuang,
Susana Arrigain,
Rocío López,
Megan Snair,
Marie Budev,
Jesse D. Schold
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000003129
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , cohort , proportional hazards model , socioeconomic status , lung transplantation , demography , transplantation , emergency medicine , confidence interval , population , environmental health , sociology
In response to a longstanding Federal mandate to minimize the role of geography in access to transplant in the United States, we assessed whether patient travel distance was associated with lung transplant outcomes. We focused on the posttransplant time period, when the majority of patient visits to a transplant center occur.