1. Heart Transplant Program Volume Is Not a Measure of Quality
Arthur Jackson Crumbley, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 95, Issue 4, Pages (April 2013)
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2. Fig 1
Scattergram showing that the range of performance of the three volume-defined groups for all donors, January 1, 2009, to June 30, 2011, is the same, except for five outliers in the low-volume centers.
Adapted from Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, US Hospitals with Heart Transplant Centers (
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