Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Life Support Status		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	47,328	54,034	60,656	65,234	68,509	72,356	76,829	80,436	79,528	75,277
	Deaths	1,179	1,370	1,621	1,943	2,491	2,369	2,443	2,450	2,270	1,779
	Rate	28.8	28.9	30.8	34.8	42.2	37.5	36.6	36.1	35.2	37.1
Not on Life Support	Patients	34,024	41,034	47,976	53,052	57,423	62,630	68,148	72,745	73,159	69,603
	Deaths	1,006	1,217	1,365	1,521	1,945	1,965	2,085	2,114	2,014	1,623
	Rate	36.2	35.2	34.0	34.4	39.9	36.3	35.5	34.6	33.9	36.2
On Life Support	Patients	9	10	14	20	21	19	33	39	53	55
	Deaths	*	3	2	5	3	3	3	4	4	8
	Rate	*	520.1	213.3	442.4	220.3	200.0	160.7	135.1	108.2	227.4
Unknown	Patients	13,295	12,990	12,666	12,162	11,065	9,707	8,648	7,652	6,316	5,619
	Deaths	170	150	254	417	543	401	355	332	252	148
	Rate	13.0	11.7	20.5	35.8	53.0	44.5	44.9	49.9	49.0	48.0

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).