Median Wait Time
The Pediatic Liver Care Center team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center works with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a national organization that coordinates the process of obtaining and distributing donor organs for transplantation.
The Liver Care Center team cannot determine when a liver will become available. Learn more about How Long Will it Take to Get a New Liver?
Once a child is placed on the UNOS waiting list, he / she is given a PELD / MELD score. This score is an indicator of the severity of the disease and is dependent about several factors. The higher the score, the sicker the child.
Here's a look at the median wait times for the last 25 liver transplants at Cincinnati Children's, broken down by a child's PELD score:
Last updated January 2007
