Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Previous Tx Any Organ		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
No	Patients	41,100	46,904	52,992	57,623	60,991	64,445	68,344	71,397	70,566	66,662
	Deaths	1,012	1,154	1,409	1,708	2,201	2,116	2,182	2,208	2,013	1,575
	Rate	28.2	27.8	30.5	34.4	41.7	37.5	36.7	36.6	35.1	36.9
Yes	Patients	6,228	7,130	7,664	7,611	7,518	7,911	8,485	9,039	8,962	8,615
	Deaths	167	216	212	235	290	253	261	242	257	204
	Rate	33.2	36.2	33.4	38.4	46.4	37.6	36.0	32.4	36.0	38.4

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).