SRTR has new reports out on all the transplant centers. It appears that they update their data every six months. Here is the page on UCLA’s kidney transplant program. I blogged about this way back in mid-January. The updated reports have six months of additional data.
I was mainly focused on looking at wait times for patients with blood type B, and comparing that to other centers across the country. Six months ago, it seemed California had very long wait periods, and it was worse than average for blood type B patients. Well, nothing has changed in six months. If anything, the statistics got a bit worse. In the prior report, it said about 20.2% of blood type B patients received a transplant after 3-years. Now the number is 19.5%. It’s slightly worse but I don’t know if it’s statistically significant. In comparison, the national number for all patients is 26.6%, up from 25.4% six months ago. So, the entire country got slightly better, while blood type B patients at UCLA got slightly worse.
The 63-page report can be found at the SRTR website, as well as prior reports.
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