Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Outcomes for Children Waitlisted for Pediatric Liver Transplantation

ABSTRACT Objective: African Americans and other minorities are known to face barriers to health care influencing their access to organ transplantation but it is not known whether these barriers exist among pediatric liver transplant waitlist candidates. We sought to determine whether outcomes on the waitlist (ie, mortality, deceased donor liver transplantation [DDLT], and living‐donor liver transplantation [LDLT]) varied by race/ethnicity. Methods: National registry data were studied to estimate the race/ethnicity‐specific risk of waitlist mortality, DDLT and LDLT in children (