Measuring access to liver transplantation: An overdue metric for center quality and performance.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Quality Metrics in Solid Organ Transplantation: A Systematic Review.Transplantation · 2018
   Pooled it
2. Declined Organs for Liver Transplantation: A Right Decision or a Missed Opportunity for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma?Cancers · 2023
   Article
3. Deceased Brain Dead Donor Liver Transplantation and Utilization in the United States: Nighttime and Weekend Effects.Transplantation · 2019
   Article
4. Offer acceptance practices and geographic variability in allocation model for end-stage liver disease at transplant.Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society · 2018
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Increasing Access.2016
• Comment on
  Liver transplant center variability in accepting organ offers and its impact on patient survival.2016

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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