Publications by authors named "William Alexander Henry Schwartz"
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- Frailty and sarcopenia increase the risk of hospitalization and mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease, making it crucial to identify frail individuals during liver transplant evaluations.
- In a study of 426 liver transplant recipients, 31% were sarcopenic and 25% were considered frail based on the Liver Frailty Index (LFI), with those groups showing longer post-transplant hospital stays.
- While neither frailty nor sarcopenia significantly affected 1-year survival rates, the LFI score was linked to increased mortality, suggesting that physical frailty assessment is a better predictor of outcomes than muscle mass alone.
Undocumented donors: how driver's licenses can help solve the U.S. organ shortage.
J Public Health Policy
December 2021
In 2013, Illinois enacted a new law (SB 957) to allow undocumented motorists to acquire Temporary Visitor Driver's Licenses (TVDLs). We explored the impact of this legislation on organ donor registration in the state. Using Freedom of Information Act requests, we obtained the Illinois TVDL and general adult driver's license applicant organ donation statistics for the last 3 years from the Illinois Secretary of State.
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