Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Life Support Status		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	6,707	8,270	9,828	11,248	12,589	13,809	14,789	15,669	16,043	15,614
	Deaths	510	612	745	779	855	863	983	985	959	816
	Rate	95.9	89.6	91.0	81.7	79.2	71.6	76.2	72.2	70.1	76.8
Not on Life Support	Patients	5,565	6,685	7,614	8,013	8,187	8,324	8,291	8,183	7,957	7,388
	Deaths	369	446	521	512	468	486	502	491	482	380
	Rate	81.7	78.7	79.7	71.6	63.1	64.0	66.7	66.5	69.7	75.1
On Life Support	Patients	1,132	1,577	2,204	3,214	4,343	5,343	6,304	7,206	7,596	7,673
	Deaths	140	166	224	264	376	364	462	466	462	422
	Rate	175.9	143.2	136.5	111.6	112.4	83.3	88.2	76.7	71.7	79.9
Unknown	Patients	10	8	10	21	59	142	194	280	490	553
	Deaths	1	*	0	3	11	13	19	28	15	14
	Rate	115.7	*	0.0	274.5	425.5	149.1	139.6	148.7	48.3	48.8

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

The sample includes patients with a new or functioning transplant at any time during the year. The period at risk begins on the later of January 1 or the transplant date and ends on the earlier of December 31, the date of death, or the last date of follow-up. Please see Technical Notes chapter for further details about computation of death rates.

(-) = None in category.

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