Achieving clinically optimal balance between accuracy and simplicity of a formula for manual use: Development of a simple formula for estimating liver graft weight with donor anthropometrics

• Nao Ichihara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nao Ichihara, Naoya Sato

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Quality Assessment, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6902-2342

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• Naoya Sato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nao Ichihara, Naoya Sato

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4572-7855

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• Shigeru Marubashi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan

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• Hiroaki Miyata,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Quality Assessment, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Susumu Eguchi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan, Division of Health Sciences, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Hideki Ohdan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Health Sciences, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Japanese Liver Transplant Society, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Koji Umeshita,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Health Sciences, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Applied Life Sciences, Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Mitsukazu Gotoh

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mgotoh@fmu.ac.jp

  Affiliation Osaka General Medical Center, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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