Table 6.

Characteristics of applications meeting vs. not meeting clinical criteria

Reason for application	Applicants	Applications	Accepted applications, N (%)	Mean accepted MELD score‡	Mean adjusted MELD accepted score‡
Recommended criteria*
Pre-1/1/07	33	55	33 (60.0)	23.4 ± 4.6	1.00 ± 0.20
Post-1/1/07	52	106	84 (79.3)	22.0 ± 3.8	0.93 ± 0.15
P-value†			0.02	0.09	0.04
Not recommended criteria*
Pre-1/1/07	116	183	124 (67.8)	24.6 ± 4.8	1.04 ± 0.14
Post-1/1/07	136	311	250 (80.4)	21.5 ± 4.3	0.93 ± 0.16
P-value†			0.002	<0.001	<0.001

^*Recommended criteria defined as recurrent cholangitis and either 2 episodes of bacteremia or 1 episode sepsis/abscess

^† P-value represents comparison of pre- vs. post-1/1/07