Table 3.
Hospitals performing the minimum volume regulation liver transplantation and official number of liver transplantation centres in 2004
| German states | MV* hospitals | km2/MV hospitals | MV hospitals, standard achieved | Number of cases in MV hospitals with standard NOT achieved | Transplan-tation centres (DSO**) | ||
| Baden-Württemberg | 20 | 1788 | 11 | 55% | 34 | 7% | 2 |
| Bavaria | 13 | 5427 | 9 | 69% | 24 | 5% | 5 |
| Berlin | 6 | 149 | 3 | 50% | 18 | 4% | 1 |
| Brandenburg | 3 | 9826 | 1 | 33% | 8 | 26% | 0 |
| Bremen | 2 | 202 | 2 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 |
| Hamburg | 4 | 189 | 3 | 75% | 1 | 0% | 1 |
| Hesse | 5 | 4223 | 4 | 80% | 9 | 6% | 1 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 3 | 7726 | 2 | 67% | 6 | 12% | 1 |
| Lower Saxony | 4 | 11905 | 2 | 50% | 4 | 3% | 2 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 51 | 668 | 22 | 43% | 100 | 12% | 4 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 2 | 9927 | 1 | 50% | 3 | 2% | 1 |
| Saarland | 2 | 1285 | 1 | 50% | 5 | 5% | 1 |
| Saxony | 8 | 2302 | 4 | 50% | 8 | 7% | 1 |
| Saxony-Anhalt | 2 | 11223 | 1 | 50% | 2 | 2% | 1 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 4 | 3941 | 3 | 75% | 3 | 3% | 1 |
| Thuringia | 3 | 5391 | 1 | 33% | 16 | 14% | 1 |
| Germany total | 132 | 2.704 | 70 | 53% | 241 | 7% | 23 |
* Minimum volume
** German foundation for organ transplantation