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Transplant Files

• One record per transplant
• Recipient demographic characteristics such as age, race, ethnicity
• Recipient clinical characteristics such as diagnosis, blood type, HLA, PRA
• Candidacy summary, such as wait list date, waiting time, medical urgency status at listing and at transplant
• Donor summary including demographics, blood type, HLA, cause of death
• Transplant event descriptors, including ischemic time, calculated HLA mismatch, preservation technique
• Summarized follow-up information including graft failure and mortality ascertained from follow-up forms, re-listing, re-transplant, Social Security Administration

Candidate Files

• One record per transplant candidate registration
• Details of wait list registrations
• Includes all wait list registrations, both transplanted and non-transplanted
• Basic demographic and medical background information as in transplant files
• Timeline of wait list registration: listing and removal dates, transplant date, death date

Donor Detail Files

• One record per donor with at least one organ recovered for transplant
• Donor demographics and medical information
• Organ disposition data for each solid organ

Other Information Available

• Patient identifiers may be released under special agreement, when necessary for linking to other data sources
• The structure or content of files released may be altered to facilitate a specific research question. See Custom Data Files (CDFs)
• Waitlist details files, such as for changes in medical urgency status, may be requested as custom data files
• Summarized center characteristics, including transplant volume and wait list volume

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