One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at University of California - San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
Released on January 11, the report measures performance and characteristics of each transplant program at all facilities in the United States, including waiting list outcomes, post-transplant survival rates, and organ recovery and transplantation rates. Reported statistics can be found on the SRTR website.
“The registry collects data from the nation’s transplant programs and uses an algorithm they created to standardize calculations across facilities, looking at such information as how sick patients are in each program and then assigning an expected survival rate,” explained John P. Roberts, MD, chief of the UCSF Medical Center Transplant Service.
According to the report, the one-year survival rate for the UCSF Heart Transplant Program was 100 percent, compared to an expected survival rate of 87 percent. The UCSF Liver Transplant Program produced a one-year survival rate of 92 percent compared to an expected 88 percent, and the Lung Transplant Program generated a one-year survival rate of 90 percent compared to an expected 80 percent. The expected survival rates reflect the health condition of each program’s transplant patients. Read the full article.
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