Elisa Allen, Rhiannon Taylor, Alex Ander Gimson, Douglas Thorburn, Dave Collett, Elisa Allen, Varuna Aluvihare, Alex Gimson, Ernest Hidalgo, John O'Grady, Tahir Shah, Doug Thorburn, John Crookenden, Alastair MacGilchrist, James O'Beirne, James Powel, Martine Walmsley
BACKGROUND & AIMS: The National Liver Offering Scheme (NLOS) was introduced in the UK in 2018 to offer livers from deceased donors to patients on the national waiting list based, for most patients, on calculated transplant benefit. Before NLOS, livers were offered to transplant centres by geographic donor zones and, within centres, by estimated recipient need for a transplant. METHODS: UK Transplant Registry data on patient registrations and transplants were analysed to build survival on the list (M1) and survival post-transplantation (M2) statistical models...
March 21, 2024: Journal of Hepatology