Roadblocks need to be eliminated to improve access to transplants

Transplant programs erect several bureaucratic roadblocks that can stall efforts by patients to obtain a kidney transplant, a speaker said at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.

“We need to get out of the rut created by the organ transplant system,” Eliot C. Heher, MD, founder of Square Knot Health Inc. and previously the medical director of kidney transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital, said in the presentation. Read more of this article on Healio.com here.