TABLE 1.

Survey results

Policy	Number of programs in agreement
A mandatory six-month period of abstinence from alcohol is required before listing for liver transplant	7 of 7
Mandatory completion of an alcohol rehabilitation program is required in all recipients with alcoholic liver disease without exception	1 of 7
Transplants are performed for selected cases of severe acute alcoholic hepatitis	0 of 7
Random alcohol screens are routinely performed on all patients with alcoholic liver disease awaiting transplant	1 of 7 (6 perform screening only if clinical suspicion)
Validated alcoholism screening tools are routinely used in the pretransplant assessment	0 of 7