Delayed referral for liver transplant evaluation worsens outcomes in chronic liver disease patients requiring inpatient transplant evaluation

Table 1 Baseline and demographics, %

Characteristic	Delayed referral (n = 78)	Early referral (n = 82)	P value
Portion of sample	49	51	-
Age (yr)	59 (10)	57 (9)	0.19
Distance to center (miles)	43.0 [20.5–59.5]	43.5 [19.3–67.3]	0.74
Time since diagnosis (mo)	30 [12.3–60]	11 [3.75–55.5]	< 0.01
Gender			0.59
Female	39.7	43.9
Male	60.3	56.1
Race			0.49
Asian	1.3	3.7
Black or African American	1.3	1.2
Other/Unknown	17.9	12.2
White	79.5	82.9
Ethnicity			0.11
Hispanic/other	19.2	9.8
Non-Hispanic	80.8	90.1
Etiology			0.88
Autoimmune	5.1	4.9
Alcohol	43.6	53.7
Cryptogenic/cholestatic	5.1	6.1
Genetic	7.7	4.9
Hepatitis C	11.5	9.8
NASH	26.9	20.7
Blood type			0.36
A	37.2	27.2
B	16.7	19.8
AB	1.3	4.9
O	44.9	48.1

Demographic and clinical data for delayed referral (left) versus early referral (right) patients undergoing inpatient liver transplant evaluation. Data reported as percentages of total group for categorical data; as average (standard deviation) for normally distributed continuous data, and as median [IQR] for non-normally distributed continuous data. NASH: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.