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Error in new lung transplant algorithm harmed sick and dying patients

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By | gpratt@chicagotribune.com | Chicago Tribune
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David Sperlein, shown with his wife, Jeannine, at their home in Manchester, Maryland, was in need of a lung transplant during a period when a flaw in the distribution process put patients with type O blood at a disadvantage. He received a donor lung in January. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
David Sperlein, shown with his wife, Jeannine, at their home in Manchester, Maryland, was in need of a lung transplant during a period when a flaw in the distribution process put patients with type O blood at a disadvantage. He received a donor lung in January. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

A flawed new algorithm for distributing lungs to transplant patients wound up putting people with Type O blood at a disadvantage.

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