Table 13.2

Time to Transplant

New Heart-Lung Waiting List Registrations, 1993 to 2002

Race		Year of Waiting List Registration
		1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	Number of Registrations	162	159	138	153	140	138	109	115	107	88
	10th Percentile of TT (Days)	86	85	81	70	93	43	109	254	108	48
	25th Percentile of TT (Days)	300	295	328	409	737	368	399	+	515	409
	Median TT (Days)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
White	Number of Registrations	142	133	125	134	127	121	91	96	84	69
	10th Percentile of TT (Days)	86	73	98	63	99	42	62	237	106	48
	25th Percentile of TT (Days)	276	254	381	465	737	325	373	+	495	267
	Median TT (Days)	+	2,018	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound	+	688	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
African American	Number of Registrations	15	17	9	16	10	15	13	14	18	12
	10th Percentile of TT (Days)	31	423	5	115	56	198	201	372	108	409
	25th Percentile of TT (Days)	412	613	172	215	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT (Days)	+	+	739	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound	+	+	172	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Asian	Number of Registrations	4	6	3	3	0	1	3	4	1	2
	10th Percentile of TT (Days)	84	83	14	409	+	+	+	+	+	+
	25th Percentile of TT (Days)	84	211	14	409	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT (Days)	366	295	60	555	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound	84	211	14	409	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Other/Multi-race	Number of Registrations	0	3	1	0	3	1	2	1	4	5
	10th Percentile of TT (Days)	+	336	+	+	147	+	+	+	210	9
	25th Percentile of TT (Days)	+	336	+	+	147	+	+	+	210	18
	Median TT (Days)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	464	63
	Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	210	18
	Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Unknown	Number of Registrations	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	10th Percentile of TT (Days)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	25th Percentile of TT (Days)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT (Days)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2003.

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