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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2010 Mar;251(3):542–549. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181ccb370

Table 6.

Overdispersed Poisson regression models for overall rates of hospital admissions and days starting at date of potential donor history and physical examination.

Model Covariate Hospital Admissions
Hospital Days
OR 95% CI p-value OR 95% CI p-value


Recipient Age at Enrollment (per 10 years) 1.03 (0.96, 1.10) 0.40 1.11 (1.02, 1.20) 0.015
MELD at Enrollment (per 1 unit) 1.03 (1.02, 1.04) <0.0001 1.04 (1.03, 1.05) <0.0001
HCC at Enrollment 1.15 (0.93, 1.41) 0.19 1.02 (0.78, 1.34) 0.89
LDLT less experience (vs. DDLT+no transplant) 1.27 (1.08, 1.49) 0.004 1.18 (0.97, 1.45) 0.10
LDLT more experience (vs. DDLT+no transplant) 1.27 (1.08, 1.50) 0.004 1.21 (0.99, 1.48) 0.07