Analytical approaches for transplant research

✍ Scribed by Robert A. Wolfe; Randall L. Webb; David M. Dickinson; Valarie B. Ashby; Dawn M. Dykstra; Tempie E. Hulbert-Shearon; Keith P. McCullough

• Book ID: 114423679
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 97 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1600-6135
• DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.3.s4.10.x

✦ Synopsis

When summarizing the transplantation process, a surprising number of issues arise that involve deciding what to count and how to count them. Many of these issues are discussed in the 'Data Sources and Structure' article in this supplement. Appendix A in the Annual Report gives detailed definitions and methods for counting deceased donors, living donors, organs recovered, waiting list registrations, transplant candidates, time spent on the waiting list, waiting list offers of organs, transplant operations, organs transplanted, waiting list deaths, graft failures, and post-transplant mortality. A few of the most important distinctions are listed below.

A donor is any person, living or deceased at the time of organ removal, from whom an organ is procured with the intention of transplant, whether that organ is eventually Funding: The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) is funded by contract #231-00-0116 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the US Government. This is a US Government-funded work. There are no restrictions on its use.