Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Blood Type		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	5,401	5,946	6,286	6,380	6,971	7,165	7,291	7,658	7,540	7,336
	Deaths	790	781	763	731	772	743	782	770	714	592
	Rate	404.1	317.4	273.7	253.6	240.4	206.9	207.5	191.2	170.5	145.0
O	Patients	2,494	2,755	2,963	3,014	3,321	3,458	3,532	3,719	3,705	3,644
	Deaths	392	395	403	373	400	382	413	404	347	309
	Rate	384.9	306.3	279.6	246.1	235.4	201.6	206.0	189.8	155.2	137.2
A	Patients	2,088	2,345	2,397	2,413	2,605	2,641	2,697	2,834	2,775	2,660
	Deaths	269	288	267	256	265	244	258	260	272	215
	Rate	397.4	334.0	273.6	259.0	243.7	200.5	200.4	187.1	189.9	160.8
B	Patients	611	634	720	752	815	823	835	866	821	802
	Deaths	100	72	78	78	82	97	92	92	80	55
	Rate	480.1	292.1	260.0	244.4	231.4	248.2	235.0	220.6	187.1	135.3
AB	Patients	208	212	206	201	230	243	227	239	239	230
	Deaths	29	26	15	24	25	20	19	14	15	13
	Rate	564.5	415.1	212.3	403.3	356.3	227.4	226.8	152.8	162.1	151.4

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2001.

Patients alive on the waiting list at any time during the year are counted. Period at risk begins the later of January 1 or waiting list registration and ends on the earlier of December 31, date of death, or date of removal for other reasons. Please see Technical Notes chapter for further details about death rate computation.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = Values suppressed due to small N (0 to 9).