Objective To analyze factors related to the quality of donor livers donated after cardiac death （DCD）. Methods 67 patients who received liver transplantation in the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University between July 2014 and September 2017 were studied. Donor information，including age，sex，primary disease， treatment time，hypertension，diabetes，smoking，drinking，body mass index（BMI），level of the fatty liver disease， albumin，serum sodium，blood glucose，arterial oxygen pressure（PaO2 ），alanine aminotransferase（ALT），aspartate aminotransferase（AST），as well as liver function of recipients，including AST，ALT，total bilirubin（TBiL）and direct bilirubin（DBiL），were analyzed by Spearman correlation test. Factors correlated with the dependent variant were selectedand further analyzed by a multiple linear regression analysis. A regression model was establised by influence factors，to evaluate the quality of donor livers. Results Age，hypertension，smoking，and primary disease were significantly associated with TBiL on day 15 after liver transplantation（r ＝ 0.227，2.7，0.338，0.288，all P ＜ 0.05），age and smoking were significantly associated with DBiL on day 15 after liver transplantation（r ＝ 2.78，0.26，both P ＜ 0.05）. The Fitting regression models were log10TBiL ＝ 1.732 + 0.006×Age + 0.123×（1 or 0，1 for traumatic brain injury，0 for intracerebral hemorrhage）+ 0.151×（1 or 0，1 for smoking，0 for no smoking），adjusted R2 ＝ 0.224（F ＝ 6.962，P ＜ 0.01）and log10DBiL ＝ 1.795 + 0.011×Age + 0.17×（1 or 0，1 for smoking，0 for no smoking），adjusted R2 ＝ 0.186（F ＝ 8.416，P ＝ 0.001）. Conclusion Hypertension，age，smoking，primary disease are the risk factors that affect the postoperative liver function in the early stage of liver transplantation，and the recovery of total bilirubin level after liver transplantation in patients with brain trauma is slower than that of patients with cerebral hemorrhage.