Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Life Support Status		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	616	1,023	1,480	1,915	2,456	2,848	3,260	3,557	3,762	3,708
	Deaths	113	184	239	262	361	431	455	461	492	439
	Rate	331.1	275.6	238.9	187.1	196.9	194.4	180.7	163.8	173.0	196.6
Not on Life Support	Patients	585	979	1,435	1,856	2,360	2,702	3,055	3,334	3,446	3,350
	Deaths	102	165	222	246	335	398	416	426	442	398
	Rate	311.4	254.9	227.2	179.5	188.3	186.9	174.3	160.8	166.1	190.9
On Life Support	Patients	24	39	43	57	88	111	136	153	170	179
	Deaths	10	17	16	15	22	26	27	25	35	28
	Rate	1,153.3	972.6	728.8	528.9	425.3	360.3	292.1	224.3	291.9	258.2
Unknown	Patients	7	5	2	2	8	35	69	70	146	179
	Deaths	*	*	*	*	*	7	12	10	15	13
	Rate	*	*	*	*	*	452.4	314.3	186.2	239.6	324.4

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).