A database that determined patients' eligibility for organ transplants was inappropriately altered, hospital officials have admitted.
A Texas hospital has shut down its organ transplant program after discovering that a doctor allegedly made “inappropriate changes” to medical records that would have made certain patients ineligible for operations. The Houston-based Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, which previously operated a kidney and liver transplant program, has paused the program while an investigation unfolds into alterations made to a patient database.
Hospital officials said they found patients had been listed as accepting only donors with ages and weights that were impossible — for instance, a 300-pound toddler — making them unable to receive any transplant. There’s little clarity about what may have motivated the doctor to make these changes. When reached for comment by Gizmodo, UTHealth provided a statement that reads, in part: Dr.
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