Offer patterns of nationally placed livers by donation service area

Jennifer C. Lai, Sandy Feng, Eric Vittinghoff, John P. Roberts – 27 February 2013 – We previously reported that national liver distribution is highly concentrated in 6 US centers, and this raises the possibility of expedited placement. Therefore, we evaluated all national offers of nationally placed livers (n=1625) to adult wait‐list candidates from February 2005 to January 2010. We developed a model to predict national utilization pathways; pathways exceeding the best‐fit linear unbiased predictions by ≥3 standard errors were defined as preferred.

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