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Donor assessment scores: Relevance and complete irrelevance
Author(s) -
Porrett Paige M.,
ter Horst Matthijs,
Shaked Abraham
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
liver transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.814
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-6473
pISSN - 1527-6465
DOI - 10.1002/lt.23504
Subject(s) - medicine , liver transplantation , matching (statistics) , transplantation , relevance (law) , intensive care medicine , clinical significance , pathology , political science , law
Key Points 1. Donor assessment scores can be used to prognosticate recipient outcomes but are often not clinically relevant. 2. The donor risk index, the survival outcomes following liver transplantation score, and the Donor Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease score have specific advantages and disadvantages with respect to accuracy and ease of use. 3. The significance of the donor assessment is undermined by an allocation system that sometimes limits ideal donor‐recipient matching and whose sole objective is the minimization of wait‐list mortality instead of the benefit of transplantation. Liver Transpl, 2012. © 2012 AASLD.