Center effect on posttransplant survival among currently active United States pediatric heart transplant centers

The official analysis of posttransplant survival considers only recently transplanted patients and suggests absence of outcome differences among pediatric heart transplant (HT) centers. We sought to compare posttransplant survival among currently active pediatric HT centers in the United States over 15 years of activity. We identified all children <18 years old who underwent their first HT during 2000-2014 at US centers active during 2013-14....