Impact of Drug Overdose Deaths on Solid Organ Transplantation in the United States

J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Sep;33(9):1423-1425. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4477-8.
No abstract available

Keywords: Deceased donors; Drug overdose; Hepatitis C virus; Opioid epidemic; Organ transplantation.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cause of Death
  • Drug Overdose / mortality*
  • Female
  • Graft Survival
  • Humans
  • Kaplan-Meier Estimate
  • Male
  • Mortality / trends*
  • Organ Transplantation* / methods
  • Organ Transplantation* / mortality
  • Organ Transplantation* / statistics & numerical data
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Tissue Donors
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement* / methods
  • Tissue and Organ Procurement* / statistics & numerical data
  • United States / epidemiology