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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2022 Jan 6;22(6):1683–1690. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16931

Figure 2: Survival of heart transplant recipients before and after implementation of the new heart allocation policy with increasing follow-up.

Figure 2:

Estimates of 1-year post-transplant survival were biased downward by informative censoring with artificially truncated follow-up. However, the hazard ratio of transplant after policy implementation from an unadjusted Cox proportional hazards model was not significantly increased with truncated follow-up. Follow-up was truncated at November 1, 2019 (Panel A, log-rank P = 0.7, unadjusted HR = 1.04 [0.85–1.28]), May 1, 2020 (Panel B, log-rank P = 0.6, unadjusted HR = 1.04 [0.87–1.25]), and November 1, 2020 (Panel C, log-rank P = 0.9, unadjusted HR = 0.99 [0.83–1.18]). Panel D shows survival curves with full follow-up through March 2, 2021 (log-rank P = 0.8, unadjusted HR = 0.98 [0.82–1.17]).