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Article: Studies from University of Pittsburgh have provided new data on liver transplant.
- Article from:
- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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"The question of whether health care inequities occur before patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) are waitlisted for transplantation has not previously been assessed. To determine the impact of gender, race and insurance on access to transplantation, we linked Pennsylvania sources of data regarding adult patients discharged from nongovernmental hospitals from 1994 to 2001," researchers in the United States report (see also Liver Transplant).
"We followed the patients through 2003 and linked information to records from five centers responsible for 95% of liver transplants in Pennsylvania during this period. Using multinomial logistic regressions, we ...