Community-level social vulnerability and individual socioeconomic status on liver transplant referral outcome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent endeavors emphasize the importance of understanding early barriers to liver transplantation (LT) by consistently collecting data on patient demographics, socioeconomic factors, and geographic social deprivation indices.

Methods

In this retrospective single-center cohort study of 1657 adults referred for LT evaluation, we assessed the association between community-level vulnerability and individual socioeconomic status measures on the rate of waitlisting and transplantation. Patients' addresses were linked to Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) at the census tract-level to characterize community-level vulnerability. Descriptive statistics were used to describe patient characteristics. Multivariable cause-specific HRs were used to assess the association between

SUBMITTER: Yilma M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10309511 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature