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Table 3 Hospitals performing the minimum volume regulation liver transplantation and official number of liver transplantation centres in 2004

From: Evaluating compulsory minimum volume standards in Germany: how many hospitals were compliant in 2004?

German states

MV* hospitals

km2/MV hospitals

MV hospitals, standard achieved

Number of cases in MV hospitals with standard NOT achieved

Transplan-tation centres (DSO**)

Baden-WĂĽrttemberg

20

1788

11

55%

34

7%

2

Bavaria

13

5427

9

69%

24

5%

5

Berlin

6

149

3

50%

18

4%

1

Brandenburg

3

9826

1

33%

8

26%

0

Bremen

2

202

2

100%

0

0%

0

Hamburg

4

189

3

75%

1

0%

1

Hesse

5

4223

4

80%

9

6%

1

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

3

7726

2

67%

6

12%

1

Lower Saxony

4

11905

2

50%

4

3%

2

North Rhine-Westphalia

51

668

22

43%

100

12%

4

Rhineland-Palatinate

2

9927

1

50%

3

2%

1

Saarland

2

1285

1

50%

5

5%

1

Saxony

8

2302

4

50%

8

7%

1

Saxony-Anhalt

2

11223

1

50%

2

2%

1

Schleswig-Holstein

4

3941

3

75%

3

3%

1

Thuringia

3

5391

1

33%

16

14%

1

Germany total

132

2.704

70

53%

241

7%

23

  1. * Minimum volume
  2. ** German foundation for organ transplantation