“That’s where the one-year mortality metrics really create some paradoxical incentives, and the impression of paradoxical incentives,” he said. In response to these concerns, the Department of Health and Human Services called for comments on a proposal to do away with the one-year metric for transplant program C.M.S. Perhaps there is no single metric that defines success, said Dr. Hilary Goldberg, who heads the lung transplant program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Her surgery is a success story by any metric, not just by the one-year mortality measure. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram.

Source: New York Times May 04, 2019 18:33 UTC