ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2023
Identifying and understanding variation in population-based access to liver transplantation in the United States.
Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Measuring health inequalities in liver transplantation: a systematic review of deprivation scores for survival in end-stage liver disease.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Liver Transplantation for Cancer-Current Challenges and Emerging Solutions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Racial and ethnic disparities in liver transplant access vary within and across transplant referral regions.Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society · 2025Article
- Referral to Liver Transplant: A National Survey from Portugal.GE Portuguese journal of gastroenterology · 2025Article
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We aimed to identify variations in liver transplant access across transplant referral regions (TRRs), accounting for differences in population characteristics and practice environments. Adult end-stage liver disease (ESLD) deaths and liver waitlist additions from 2015 to 2019 were included. The primary outcome was listing-to-death ratio (LDR). We modeled the LDR as a continuous variable and obtained adjusted LDR estimates for each TRR, accounting for clinical and demographic characteristics of ESLD decedents, socioeconomic and health care environment within the TRR, and characteristics of the transplant environment. The overall mean LDR was 0.24 (range: 0.10-0.53). In the final model, proportion of patients living in poverty and concentrated poverty was negatively associated with LDR; organ donation rate was positively associated with LDR. The R
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