TABLE 1.

Waiting list registrations, deaths from liver disease, and liver wait-listing ratios for acute liver failure and chronic liver disease by year, 1999–2006

Year	Waiting list	NCHS deaths	Waiting list + posttransplant deaths	LWR (95% CI)
All acute	3263	10,602	1358	0.261 (0.253–0.269)
1999	450	1406	160	0.265 (0.244–0.286)
2000	406	1374	167	0.252 (0.231,0.273)
2001	443	1357	160	0.270 (0.249–0.292)
2002	392	1368	179	0.248 (0.227–0.269)
2003	376	1275	168	0.254 (0.231–0.276)
2004	392	1226	177	0.272 (0.249–0.295)
2005	443	1331	185	0.279 (0.257–0.301)
2006	361	1265	162	0.247 (0.225–0.269)
All chronic	68,982	412,932	29,351	0.152 (0.151–0.153)
1999	8462	45,662	2920	0.165 (0.162–0.168)
2000	8770	47,133	3135	0.166 (0.163–0.169)
2001	8885	48,772	3550	0.164 (0.161–0.167)
2002	7764	51,613	3711	0.139 (0.137–0.142)
2003	8355	53,489	3774	0.144 (0.141–0.147)
2004	8885	53,741	3981	0.152 (0.149–0.154)
2005	8852	55,797	4087	0.146 (0.143–0.149)
2006	9009	56,725	4193	0.146 (0.144–0.149)