The Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston said a doctor manipulated a database for liver transplants to make patients ineligible for the life-saving…
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center said in a statement Friday that their ongoing investigation found that a doctor had made “inappropriate changes” in a database for people awaiting liver transplants.after it says a doctor manipulated a database for liver transplant patients, making them ineligible to receive a new organ.
Memorial Hermann said a doctor made changes to the donor acceptance criteria, which includes factors like the age and weight of the deceased donors. The hospital said the inappropriate changes were only made to the liver transplant program, but since there is shared leadership over both the liver and kidney transplant programs, they inactivated both.
Without fairness, transparency and accountability in a transplant program “you lose, the trust of patients, but also donors,” Maschke said, “because, donors won’t want to provide organs if they think that the institution is not going to manage the allocation system fairly.”Memorial Hermann said in a statement Thursday to The New York Times that a doctor in the liver transplant program admitted to changing patient records. The newspaper identified the doctor as Bynon.
The death rate for people waiting for a liver transplant at Memorial Hermann was higher than expected in recent years, according to publicly available data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, which evaluates U.S. organ transplant programs.
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