The sickest first? Disparities with model for end‐stage liver disease‐based organ allocation: One region's experience
Schaffer RL, Kulkarni S, Harper A, Millis JM, Cronin DC. The sickest first? Disparities with model for end‐stage liver disease‐based organ allocation: One region's experience. Liver Transplantation 2003, 9: 1211-1215. PMID: 14586883, DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50192.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCadaver liversMELD scoreHepatocellular carcinomaOrgan allocationRegion patientsEnd-stage liver diseaseEquitable organ distributionMean MELD scoreMedian MELD scoreHigh MELD scoreLiver transplant programNumber of transplantationsOrgan Sharing regionsLiver recipientsPretransplantation mortalityMELD exceptionsLiver diseaseSingle centerUnited NetworkTransplant programsWaiting listTransplantationEvidence-based systemOrgan procurementTransplantation Network