Response to "Is the hub-and-spoke model of care delivery a possible answer to geographical variation in liver transplant outcomes?"

Gwilym J Webb; James Hodson; Abhishek Chauhan; John O'Grady; James M Neuberger; Gideon M Hirschfield; James W Ferguson

doi:10.1111/ajt.15226

Response to "Is the hub-and-spoke model of care delivery a possible answer to geographical variation in liver transplant outcomes?"

Am J Transplant. 2019 Apr;19(4):1248-1249. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15226. Epub 2019 Jan 22.

Authors

Gwilym J Webb^{1

2}, James Hodson³, Abhishek Chauhan^{1

2}, John O'Grady⁴, James M Neuberger¹, Gideon M Hirschfield^{1

2}, James W Ferguson¹

Affiliations

¹ Liver Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
² National Institute for Health Research Birmingham Liver Biomedical Research Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
³ Statistics, Institute of Translation Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁴ Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

PMID: 30582276
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15226

No abstract available

Keywords: editorial/personal viewpoint; health services and outcomes research; liver transplantation/hepatology; organ procurement and allocation; patient survival; recipient selection; registry/registry analysis; waitlist management.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Delivery of Health Care
Humans
Liver Transplantation*
Tissue and Organ Procurement*
Transplants*
Waiting Lists