The Effect of Race, Sex, and Insurance Status on Time-to-Listing Decisions for Liver Transplantation

Table 2

Unadjusted time to listing and time to transplantation, controlling for competing risk of death.

BEFORE LISTING
	Total	Cumulative percent of				Cumulative percent of
		diagnosed patients listed within:				diagnosed patients who died within:
		1 year	3 years	5 years	8 years	1 year	3 years	5 years	8 years
All diagnosed patients	144,507	1.30	1.82	2.03	2.12	21.91	30.98	35.71	38.56
Gender
Male	77,885	1.43	2.05	2.30	2.40	23.52	32.97	37.82	40.66
Female	66,622	1.15	1.55	1.71	1.79	20.01	28.66	33.26	36.11
Race/ethnicity
White	103,969	1.30	1.85	2.07	2.17	22.87	32.15	37.17	40.20
Black	19,791	0.79	1.11	1.26	1.31	19.17	28.33	32.89	35.60
Hispanic/Asian/other	6,363	1.70	2.52	2.80	2.91	14.27	20.67	23.92	25.65
Unknown	14,384	1.81	2.27	2.44	2.49	22.09	30.76	34.28	36.52
Insurance status
Medicare only	14,315	0.60	0.78	0.81	0.85	32.90	45.57	51.19	53.83
Medicare + Medicaid	7,721	0.52	0.67	0.76	0.79	29.09	41.73	48.26	51.83
Medicare + commercial	40,137	0.42	0.52	0.57	0.57	33.57	46.69	53.82	58.21
Medicaid only	24,214	1.01	1.66	1.86	1.95	13.13	20.56	24.23	26.74
Commercial only	51,711	2.45	3.36	3.7	3.94	14.14	19.78	22.80	24.65
Uninsured (incl. self-pay)	4,915	1.16	1.87	1.99	2.18	11.23	16.38	19.57	21.02
Unknown	1,494	0.94	1.41	1.81	2.01	12.85	18.41	22.09	26.91
AFTER LISTING
	Total	Cumulative percent of				Cumulative percent of
		listed patients transplanted within:				listed patients who died within:
		1 year	3 years	5 years	8 years	1 year	3 years	5 years	8 years
All listed patients	3,071	36.80	47.80	49.63	50.05	14.23	19.47	20.91	21.26
Gender
Male	1,880	38.88	50.32	52.18	52.50	13.35	18.40	19.79	20.00
Female	1,191	33.50	43.83	45.59	46.18	15.62	21.16	22.67	23.26
Race/ethnicity
White	2,267	37.72	48.83	50.90	51.39	13.94	19.19	20.38	20.87
Black	260	33.08	43.08	43.46	43.85	20.39	26.15	28.85	28.85
Hispanic/Asian/other	185	35.68	45.41	47.03	47.03	11.89	17.84	21.08	21.08
Unknown	359	34.26	45.96	47.35	47.63	12.81	17.27	18.38	18.38
Insurance status
Medicare only	123	40.65	51.22	51.22	52.03	17.07	22.76	24.39	24.39
Medicare + Medicaid	61	34.43	39.34	39.34	39.34	11.48	19.67	21.31	21.31
Medicare + commercial	229	37.99	45.42	46.73	46.73	17.03	24.89	26.64	28.38
Medicaid only	475	33.26	44.00	45.90	46.11	17.26	22.11	24.42	24.84
Commercial only	2,043	37.20	48.80	50.86	51.35	13.22	18.16	19.33	19.53
Uninsured (incl. self-pay)	109	42.20	52.29	53.21	54.13	12.84	17.43	19.27	19.27
Unknown	31	25.81	45.16	48.39	48.39	12.90	19.36	19.36	22.58