How this tool works
All data shown is SRTR data made publicly available from the SRTR reports published on the OPTN/UNOS pages managed by OPTN/UNOS. Information presented is not medical advice; it is for educational purposes only. Your transplant clinic team and your board-certified physicians are your primary medical source for your specific situation.
What the comparison table shows you
Each row is a U.S. liver transplant hospital. The table opens sorted by the typical wait time at each hospital — shortest first — so you can see at a glance which hospitals tend to transplant people quickly. Hospitals that don't publish a wait time sink to the bottom of that view.
You can click any column header to sort by something else: 1-year survival, MELD score at transplant, transplant rate, and so on.
What "personalize the table" does
When you fill in the personalize form (MELD score, blood type, age, and a few clinical details) and submit, the table stays in shortest-wait-first order — because the hospital is what you actually choose, not a region — and adds a small badge to each row called "Typical wait in this region." That badge tells you, at a glance, how long people with a profile like yours have generally waited at hospitals in that part of the country.
We don't predict your wait. Your situation is yours; what the table shows are real numbers from real past patients.
What the right panel shows when you click a hospital
Clicking a row opens a card with two panels. The left panel is everything we know about that hospital — wait time, MELD at transplant, 1-year and 3-year survival, transplant rate, and contact info. The right panel is "People like you" — what happened to past patients with a profile similar to yours at hospitals in that part of the country.
Inside the "People like you" panel you'll see:
- How long they waited — a chart showing the spread of wait times, plus the typical wait (the middle of the spread).
- What happened to them — a breakdown of how many got transplanted, how many were still waiting, and the harder outcomes too. We don't sugarcoat this. It matters for your planning.
- 1-year survival after transplant — how many out of every 100 transplant recipients in this group were still doing well a year later, with the national average for comparison.
- Caregiver cost estimate — a regional ballpark for a typical 2-month stay, to help with planning.
If there aren't enough similar people in a given part of the country to give you a meaningful picture, the panel will tell you that instead of showing thin numbers.
How sure are these numbers? — what the badges mean
- Strong picture — many similar people, the numbers are well-anchored.
- Limited picture — enough similar people to share, but read the numbers with some caution.
- Too few similar people — not enough to be reliable, so we don't show the breakdown for this case.
What this tool does not do
- It does not predict what will happen to you. The numbers describe past patients, not future you.
- It does not replace your transplant team. Your clinicians see things in your case that no historical chart can.
- It does not store anything you type. Your personalize form values leave the browser only for the moment of the lookup.
- It does not compute your MELD score on our side. The MELD/PELD calculator on the page is yours to use; you copy the score in.
Where the numbers come from
All of the hospital metrics shown here come from SRTR reports published on the OPTN/UNOS pages. Caregiver cost estimates come from publicly available regional cost-of-living data.
Use this with your team
Numbers are a starting point. Your transplant clinic team and your board-certified physicians will see things in your case that no chart can. Bring what you see here into the conversation — better questions lead to better decisions.