Mortality trends around the one‐year survival mark after heart, liver, and lung transplantation in the United States

Introduction One‐year post‐transplant survival is a significant quality measure for solid organ transplant programs in the United States. It is not known whether the use of this metric is associated with changes in life‐sustaining clinical practices that would delay mortality for solid organ recipients until just beyond the one‐year time point. Methods We compared trends in mortality in the time period immediately preceding the one‐year...