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Lung allocation score: the Eurotransplant model versus the revised US model - a cross-sectional study
2018
Transplant International
Both Eurotransplant (ET) and the US use the lung allocation score (LAS) to allocate donor lungs. In 2015, the US implemented a new algorithm for calculating the score while ET has fine-tuned the original model using business rules. A comparison of both models in a contemporary patient cohort was performed. The rank positions and the correlation between both scores were calculated for all patients on the active waiting list in ET. On February 6th 2017, 581 patients were actively listed on the
doi:10.1111/tri.13262
pmid:29665090
fatcat:3oea5yqstbglfp3ou5to3777my