Table 1.
Baseline and demographics, %
Characteristic
|
Delayed referral (n = 78)
|
Early referral (n = 82)
|
P value
|
Portion of sample | 49 | 51 | - |
Age (yr) | 59 (10) | 57 (9) | 0.19 |
Distance to center (miles) | 43.0 [20.5–59.5] | 43.5 [19.3–67.3] | 0.74 |
Time since diagnosis (mo) | 30 [12.3–60] | 11 [3.75–55.5] | < 0.01 |
Gender | 0.59 | ||
Female | 39.7 | 43.9 | |
Male | 60.3 | 56.1 | |
Race | 0.49 | ||
Asian | 1.3 | 3.7 | |
Black or African American | 1.3 | 1.2 | |
Other/Unknown | 17.9 | 12.2 | |
White | 79.5 | 82.9 | |
Ethnicity | 0.11 | ||
Hispanic/other | 19.2 | 9.8 | |
Non-Hispanic | 80.8 | 90.1 | |
Etiology | 0.88 | ||
Autoimmune | 5.1 | 4.9 | |
Alcohol | 43.6 | 53.7 | |
Cryptogenic/cholestatic | 5.1 | 6.1 | |
Genetic | 7.7 | 4.9 | |
Hepatitis C | 11.5 | 9.8 | |
NASH | 26.9 | 20.7 | |
Blood type | 0.36 | ||
A | 37.2 | 27.2 | |
B | 16.7 | 19.8 | |
AB | 1.3 | 4.9 | |
O | 44.9 | 48.1 |
Demographic and clinical data for delayed referral (left) versus early referral (right) patients undergoing inpatient liver transplant evaluation. Data reported as percentages of total group for categorical data; as average (standard deviation) for normally distributed continuous data, and as median [IQR] for non-normally distributed continuous data. NASH: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.