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. 2020 Aug;26(8):1052-1055.
doi: 10.1002/lt.25789. Epub 2020 Jun 30.

Changes in Liver Transplant Center Practice in Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019: Unmasking Dramatic Center-Level Variability

Vatche Agopian #  1 , Elizabeth Verna #  2 , David Goldberg  3
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Changes in Liver Transplant Center Practice in Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019: Unmasking Dramatic Center-Level Variability

Vatche Agopian et al. Liver Transpl. 2020 Aug.
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(A) A scatterplot of the correlation of change in deceased donors and the corresponding change in DDLTs across UNOS regions from February to March 2019. (B) A scatterplot of the correlation of change in deceased donors and the corresponding change in DDLTs across UNOS regions from February to March 2020. (C) The change in the number of DDLTs relative to the change in deceased donors over a 1‐month period from February to March 2019 versus 2020. Zero indicates a perfect 1:1 correlation; positive numbers indicate more DDLTs than expected for a given change in donors, and negative numbers indicate fewer transplants than expected for given change in donors. *Regions with fewer DDLTs than expected in 2019, but to a far greater degree in 2020. (D) Box and whisker plot of center‐level changes in DDLT volume from February to March 2019 versus 2020, stratified by UNOS region. (E) Intraregional and interregional center‐level variation in the change in DDLTs from February to March 2019 versus 2020. Asterisks are limited to regions with at least 1 center with an increase in DDLT volume from February to March 2020 and at least 1 center with a decrease in DDLT volume. *A center with a significant increase in DDLT volume from February to March 2020. **A center with a significant decrease in DDLT volume.
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