Table 5.
Characteristics of Hospitals Performing Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular carcinoma.
| Characteristic | All hospitals N = 73 |
Readmission quartile |
P-valuea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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| N = 19 | N = 19 | N = 17 | N = 18 | |||
| Patient age, mean (SD) | 57.5 (1.5) | 57.5 (1.7) | 57.3 (1.3) | 57.8 (1.3) | 57.4 (1.6) | .730 |
| Transplant volume, median (IQR) | 28.0 (16.0, 48.0) | 19.0 (14.0, 45.0) | 40.0 (28.0, 55.0) | 41.0 (21.0, 48.0) | 24.0 (13.0, 41.0) | .074 |
| Charlson-Deyo score, median (IQR) | 1.13 (.88, 1.31) | 1.2 (.8, 1.3) | 1.1 (.9, 1.3) | 1.1 (.8, 1.2) | 1.2 (1.0, 1.4) | .710 |
| Facility type, N(%) | ||||||
| Communityb | 12 (16.4) | 5 (26.3) | 1 (5.3) | 4 (23.5) | 2 (11.1) | .250 |
| Academic | 61 (83.6) | 14 (73.7) | 18 (94.7) | 13 (76.5) | 16 (88.9) | |
a
P-values calculated using Wilcoxon rank sum and Chi-square tests
b
Includes comprehensive community cancer programs.