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Mortality and cause of death. (A) Kaplan-Meier plot illustrating survival by organ allocation method and (B) Cause of death by organ allocation method. The percentage of cause of death refers to the total number of patients. ESP – Eurotransplant Senior Program; ETKAS – Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System. * P<0.05. (GraphPad Prism version 8.0, GraphPad Software, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA).

Graft loss and graft function. (A) Kaplan-Meier plot illustrating survival free from graft loss by organ allocation method. (B) Graft function following kidney transplantation as assessed by serum creatinine levels. ESP – Eurotransplant Senior Program; ETKAS – Eurotransplant Kidney Allocation System. * P<0.05. (GraphPad Prism version 8.0, GraphPad Software, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA).

Clinstat program. A – The first screen of the Clinstat program showing different statistical utilities. To perform randomization, select option 8 ‘miscellaneous calculations’ from this menu. B – Upon selection of option 8 from the main menu, this menu will be displayed in the Clinstat program. For randomization select ‘random sampling and allocation’ (option 1). C – Different randomization procedures in the Clinstat program. D – An output from the program after selecting ‘random allocation in fixed blocks’ (menu option 6), showing two blocks of the output

The association between program- and DSA-level median aMELD and the donor-to-candidate ratios. aMeld, allocation model for end-stage liver disease score; DSA, donation service area.