Table 10.2

Time to Transplant, 1996 to 2005

New Intestine Waiting List Registrations

  Year of Waiting List Registration
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total Number of Registrations 88 134 152 149 170 219 203 205 250 284
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 35 21 19 28 31 27 36 34 27 16
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 96 81 99 87 100 84 101 89 72 50
Median TT (Days) 390 + 496 313 276 333 310 289 212 232
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 254 + 191 219 174 186 255 201 182 158
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 1,164 + + 520 464 492 999 443 334 +


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 1, 2006.

(+) = 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.