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Table 15.3

Time to Transplant, 1999 to 2008

New Heart Waiting List Registrations

		Year of Waiting List Registration
		1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Heart	Number of Registrations	3,542	3,448	3,400	3,230	2,939	2,882	2,836	3,037	3,112	3,384
	10th Percentile of TT (Days)	18	15	14	14	14	12	10	9	8	12
	25th Percentile of TT (Days)	73	57	51	46	44	38	33	26	25	38
	Median TT (Days)	359	327	264	230	209	166	131	111	114	168
	Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound	314	290	232	207	181	153	120	101	104	152
	Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound	411	368	300	259	233	185	149	124	127	188

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

(+) = 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.

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