Geographic disparities limit access to liver transplantation
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Racial and ethnic disparities in access to liver transplantation.
Access to liver transplantation is reportedly inequitable for racial/ethnic minorities, but inadequate adjustments for geography and disease progression preclude any meaningful conclusions. We aimed to evaluate the association between candidate race/ethnicity and liver transplant rates after thorough adjustments for these factors and to determine how uniform racial/ethnic disparities were acros...
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عنوان ژورنال: HPB
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1365-182X
DOI: 10.1016/j.hpb.2018.06.2432