Germany: Transplants: auditor cover manipulations of the Berlin Heart Center

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http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/transplantation-manipulationen-am-deutschen-herzzentrum-berlin-a-994517.html

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Transplants: auditor cover manipulations of the Berlin Heart Center at
By Heike Le Ker

When checking the transplant program at the German Heart Center in Berlin inspectors have uncovered misstatements and manipulations in 14 cases. In the years 2010-2012 there medical conditions and complications were apparently not described correctly and the dosage of certain drugs given to high. This patient became high urgency cases and slipped on the waiting list for a donor organ further up.

With high probability it had acted as "deliberate misrepresentation or manipulation," it says in the report that the Audit Commission and the monitoring of the German Medical Association have published on Tuesday.
The report, according to well data for interventions such as a cardiac catheterization compared with the organ procurement agency Euro transplant were specified incorrectly. A total of 82 were transplants have been checked with the Berlin Heart Institute after the internal processes at a random check could be "not plausibly and understandable," says the report.

The German Heart Centre has not yet been taken, according to the auditors to those objections and refer instead to the responsible senior who is reported to have appeared at any hearing. The examiner wrote: "It is not clear on what grounds the German Heart Institute Berlin is not an opinion to the findings of the commission."

Documentation error in dialysis

The quality controllers in addition to the heart transplant programs also all other transplant centers in Germany. Date programs 60 have been tested. Last year, the inspectors had already their presented results from the liver transplant programs . Neither in the field of kidney transplants still in the pancreas and combined kidney-pancreas transplants were therefore indications of systematic policy violations or tampering. The only documentation about error in Erstdialyse be noticed. "Except for the Heart Institute Berlin, completed in the reporting period, heart tests showed no abnormalities on," said Anne-Gret cattle, Commission Chairman and Chief Judge at the Court of Appeal.

In June this year, SPIEGEL ONLINE had reported inconsistencies in organ transplants in the German Heart Center . The "Tagesspiegel" and the "Berliner Zeitung" had then reported in August that against the German Heart Center on suspicion of fraud at heart donations being investigated. The center had been voluntary, the newspaper reported, citing a spokeswoman.

Controls regardless of suspicions

With the amendment of the Transplantation Act of 2012, the Audit and Control Commission can not now control only a suspicion of manipulation, but the transplant centers may also check regardless.
The manipulations in organ procurement have not only shaken the confidence of citizens in the organ donation system, as the show steadily declining numbers transplantation . According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, also have doctors and nurses in hospitals even their attitude to organ donation for negatives changed out. That says a research team led by Thomas Breidenbach, executive doctor of the German Foundation for Organ Transplantation (DSO) in Bavaria.

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