Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Life Support Status		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	7,265	9,157	11,396	13,594	15,799	17,992	20,052	22,005	23,107	23,117
	Deaths	695	698	810	840	917	1,026	1,034	1,060	1,199	1,048
	Rate	132.9	98.5	89.9	76.6	70.9	68.0	61.4	58.6	65.0	70.2
Not on Life Support	Patients	6,062	7,741	9,806	11,804	13,820	15,795	17,601	19,301	20,075	20,003
	Deaths	501	492	605	620	709	833	826	868	985	855
	Rate	113.2	81.1	77.6	64.6	62.3	62.5	55.5	54.1	60.0	63.9
On Life Support	Patients	1,199	1,413	1,580	1,773	1,948	2,126	2,267	2,278	2,230	2,127
	Deaths	194	206	203	218	203	187	197	167	191	174
	Rate	242.3	202.5	168.8	161.3	132.4	108.7	106.6	91.2	109.0	131.2
Unknown	Patients	4	3	10	17	31	71	184	426	802	987
	Deaths	*	*	2	2	5	6	11	25	23	19
	Rate	*	*	437.4	180.5	276.2	161.2	115.3	116.7	86.4	90.0

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).