Table 2. Patients with chronic liver disease hospital diagnosis and the proportion and number of those who underwent a liver transplant.
*Chronic liver disease includes cirrhosis, regardless of the etiology, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
| Demographic variable | Number of patients with chronic liver disease* diagnosis | Number of patients receiving transplant | Proportion of patients receiving a transplant | P-value |
| Gender | <0.001 | |||
| Males | 1,113,912 | 15,706 | 1.41% | |
| Female | 766,441 | 8,891 | 1.16% | |
| Age group | <0.001 | |||
| 18-30 | 38,287 | 896 | 2.34% | |
| 31-45 | 211,724 | 3,105 | 1.47% | |
| 46-60 | 704,180 | 10,677 | 1.52% | |
| > 60 | 926,161 | 9,956 | 1.08% | |
| Race | <0.001 | |||
| White | 1,253,889 | 16,928 | 1.35% | |
| Black | 187,745 | 1,840 | 0.98% | |
| Hispanic | 303,964 | 3,739 | 1.23% | |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 47,092 | 928 | 1.97% | |
| Native American | 30,324 | 200 | 0.66% | |
| Other | ||||
| Zip code income quartile | <0.001 | |||
| 1 - 47,999 | 610,979 | 5,804 | 0.95% | |
| 48,000 - 60,999 | 496,703 | 5,960 | 1.20% | |
| 61,000 - 81,999 | 442,204 | 6,589 | 1.49% | |
| 82,000+ | 330,467 | 6,279 | 1.90% | |
| Payer | <0.001 | |||
| Medicare | 870,586 | 8,096 | 0.93% | |
| Medicaid | 443,606 | 3,593 | 0.81% | |
| Private insurance | 406,862 | 11,514 | 2.83% | |
| Self-pay (No insurance) | 95,450 | 210 | 0.22% | |
| Hospital size | <0.001 | |||
| Small | 323,812 | 550 | 0.17% | |
| Medium | 521,308 | 3,545 | 0.68% | |
| Large | 1,035,234 | 20,498 | 1.98% | |
| Region of hospital | 0.790 | |||
| Northeast | 326,401 | 4,243 | 1.30% | |
| Midwest | 385,106 | 5,353 | 1.39% | |
| South | 733,643 | 9,831 | 1.34% | |
| West | 435,203 | 5,222 | 1.20% |