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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2009 Oct;146(4):543–553. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.052

Table 4.

Resource utilization after DCD and DBD liver transplantation

DCD (n=32) DBD (n=237) p-value
Total length of stay after transplant (days) (mean ± sd) 7.6 ± 4.0 7.8 ± 7.9 0.11
ICU length of stay after transplant (days) (mean ± sd) 3.5 ± 3.4 4.0 ± 7.6 0.20
Disposition 0.56
 Home (n, %) 22 (68.8%) 171 (72.2%)
 Skilled nursing facility (n, %) 4 (12.5%) 35 (14.8%)
 Acute care facility (n, %) 4 (12.5%) 26 (11.0%)
 Dead 2 (6.3%) 5 (2.1%)
30 day readmissions (n, %) 11 (34.4%) 67 (28.3%) 0.48
90 day readmissions (n, %) 15 (46.9%) 85 (35.9%) 0.25
Readmissions in first year (mean ± sd) 1.6 ± 1.9 1.1 ± 1.5 0.09
Length of stay for readmissions (days) (mean ± sd) 5.1 ± 7.5 3.2 ± 5.3 0.09
Patients undergoing ERCP/PTC within 6 mo.s (n, %) 15 (50.0%) 49 (20.9%) 0.001
Procedures (ERCP/PTC) per year (mean ± sd) 1.0 ± 2.2 0.4 ± 0.7 0.04
IC (N=16) No IC (N=250) p-value
Readmissions in first year (mean ± sd) 2.6 ± 2.1 1.1 ± 1.5 0.0007
Length of stay for readmissions (days) (mean ± sd) 7.4 ± 9.1 3.2 ± 5.3 0.003
Procedures (ERCP/PTC) per year (mean ± sd) 2.4 ± 2.8 0.3 ± 0.6 <0.0001