Tool to Aid Patients in Selecting a Liver Transplant Center.

ABSTRACT: Variations in candidate and donor acceptance criteria may influence access and mortality for liver transplantation. We sought to understand how recipient and donor characteristics vary across centers and how patients interpret this information, and we used these data to develop a tool to provide tailored information to candidates seeking a center (www.transplantcentersearch.org). We analyzed liver recipient data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients to determine how recipient and donor characteristics (eg, age, Medicaid use, and human immunodeficiency virus status) varied across programs. Data included recipients and donors at each US program between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2017. The variation in characteristics was plotted with centers stratified by total transpl

SUBMITTER: Schaffhausen CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8193801 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature