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Table 15.3

Time to Transplant, 2000 to 2009

New Heart Waiting List Registrations

		Year of Waiting List Registration
		2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
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

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.