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Table 1.5

Time to Transplant

New Waiting List Registrations, 2000 to 2009

  Year of Waiting List Registration
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Kidney Number of Registrations 22,285 22,336 23,483 24,411 27,123 29,140 31,501 32,862 33,052 34,091
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 113 115 107 107 111 108 106 121 119 121
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 339 348 340 354 358 344 361 407 427 449
Median TT (Days) 1,205 1,185 1,150 1,156 1,225 1,277 1,297 + + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 1,173 1,151 1,120 1,123 1,189 1,240 1,260 + + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 1,241 1,222 1,183 1,191 1,263 1,322 1,332 + + +
Pancreas Transplant Alone Number of Registrations 266 336 302 322 361 372 407 393 411 354
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 8 24 16 12 18 18 23 12 19 13
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 49 108 57 55 90 82 105 68 63 62
Median TT (Days) 284 751 300 343 376 356 426 260 324 447
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 220 450 194 252 293 252 333 210 214 277
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 463 3,298 532 476 612 619 693 352 515 +
Pancreas After Kidney Number of Registrations 523 613 596 595 623 517 474 386 335 309
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 29 51 37 47 33 36 47 86 69 53
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 92 139 124 142 137 164 190 273 200 219
Median TT (Days) 463 551 594 504 552 751 887 + + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 368 462 456 422 442 591 587 + + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 617 656 732 643 796 1,574 + + + +
Kidney-Pancreas Number of Registrations 2,005 1,788 1,743 1,644 1,729 1,786 1,671 1,621 1,603 1,570
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 69 65 63 62 48 48 45 47 53 43
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 225 179 180 176 149 133 132 136 149 136
Median TT (Days) 546 491 471 450 428 451 444 407 412 422
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 508 456 430 405 396 411 403 366 366 376
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 590 539 509 509 480 481 497 445 456 468
Liver Number of Registrations 10,880 11,126 9,645 10,324 10,858 10,987 11,037 11,083 11,176 11,262
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 28 29 14 10 8 8 8 8 8 9
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 193 168 80 56 43 38 36 40 45 50
Median TT (Days) 3,119 3,295 977 562 400 296 286 319 376 382
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 2,113 2,162 838 492 355 278 259 292 341 342
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound + + 1,117 643 446 329 317 346 410 414
Intestine Number of Registrations 170 219 203 205 250 284 317 281 267 260
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 31 26 36 34 27 16 20 12 9 10
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 100 81 101 89 72 50 64 33 32 29
Median TT (Days) 276 278 310 289 212 232 258 159 142 123
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 174 179 255 201 182 158 190 107 109 82
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 464 481 999 443 334 404 399 234 223 205
Heart Number of Registrations 3,449 3,400 3,230 2,939 2,882 2,836 3,037 3,112 3,384 3,515
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 15 14 14 14 12 10 9 8 12 17
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 57 51 46 44 38 33 26 25 38 56
Median TT (Days) 328 264 230 209 166 131 111 114 166 238
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 290 232 207 181 153 120 101 104 151 212
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 369 300 259 233 185 149 124 127 186 256
Lung Number of Registrations 1,974 2,032 1,887 1,953 2,000 1,564 1,776 1,959 2,005 2,280
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 110 86 80 87 45 18 9 11 11 10
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 358 284 250 240 184 54 31 35 35 33
Median TT (Days) 1,639 1,223 1,057 924 792 200 134 142 148 136
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 1,217 980 877 768 666 176 114 127 132 119
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound + 1,983 1,296 1,157 965 228 151 157 167 151
Heart-Lung Number of Registrations 116 106 88 69 78 59 77 50 53 64
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 237 112 48 77 44 50 17 18 20 40
25th Percentile of TT (Days) + 534 409 224 284 100 142 89 72 86
Median TT (Days) + + + + + + + 957 + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound + + + + + + + 306 + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound + + + + + + + + + +


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of October 1, 2010.

(+) = Not determined due to insufficient follow-up; fewer than this percentile have been transplanted.

TT = Time to Transplant in days.

This table takes a cohort of waiting list registrations and shows how long it takes for 10%, 25%, and 50%

(the median) of those patients to be transplanted. These tables take the point of view of a patient who has just

been registered on a waiting list and take into account all of the things that can happen to the patient after wait

listing, including receiving a transplant, being removed from the waiting list, and dying.

See Technical Notes for a full discussion of the methods used for this table.