Variation in access to the liver transplant waiting list in the United States.

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Published in Transplantation on July 15, 2014

Authors

Amit K Mathur1, Valarie B Ashby, Douglas S Fuller, Min Zhang, Robert M Merion, Alan Leichtman, John Kalbfleisch

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI. 2 Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI. 3 Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI. 4 Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI. 5 Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI. 6 Address correspondence to: Amit K. Mathur, M.D., M.S., 2922 Taubman Center, SPC 5300, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5300.

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