Underutilization of palliative care services in the liver transplant population

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of 107 patients who died or were delisted for being too sick for transplant

	n = 107
Age at listing, yr	58 (53-63)
Male sex	71 (66%)
Ethnicity
White	57 (53.3%)
Hispanic	24 (22.4%)
Asian	13 (12.1%)
Black	10 (9.3%)
Other	3 (2.8%)
MELD at time of listing	16 (12-23)
Etiology of cirrhosis
Alcohol related	12 (11%)
Hepatitis C	44 (41%)
Alcohol + hepatitis C	21 (20%)
Other	30 (28%)
Child-pugh score at de-listing
A	16 (15%)
B	26 (24.3%)
C	65 (60.7%)
HCC	56 (52%)
Education level
College degree or less	100 (93.5%)
Graduate level degree	7 (6.5%)

MELD: Model for end-stage liver disease; HCC: Hepatocellular cancer.