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IRQ 16: Transplant teamwork: A community hospital builds successful liver transplant program
The Piedmont Transplant Institute in Atlanta performs about 135 liver transplants each year. It’s the highest-volume liver transplant center of any nonacademic, community hospital in the United States and is among the top 10% in the nation of all transplant centers.
Piedmont’s success was achieved primarily because of the collaboration between various interdisciplinary departments—especially IR and hepatology—and an extensive network of referrals.
In the audio version of "Transplant teamwork: A community hospital builds successful liver transplant program" (Fall 2019 IR Quarterly), author Melanie Padgett Powers describes a successful Atlanta-based liver transplant program based on a strong collaboration between interventional radiology, hepatology and others.
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