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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