Finding Kidney Transplant Data
Using UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing)

UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) has developed an online database system, called UNetsm, for the collection, storage, analysis, and publication of all data pertaining to the patient waiting list, organ matching, and transplants and many other topics.

Transplant professionals from hospitals, laboratories, and organ procurement organizations and many other organizations use this data regularly

Here are directions on how you can access this data:

• Go to: https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/data/ You could scroll down to the bottom of the page and see regularly updated information on the number of people waiting for a kidney transplant. As you’ll see, there’s a wealth of information available on the left side of the page. The Data Reports are under “View Data Reports”
• You could find National Data all the way down to Center Data. Each category provides many different options. To give you an example on how this works, I’ll show you how to find the National Data for the number of kidney transplants by type, either living and deceased.
  • click on “National Data in the left column and you’ll be presented with these choices.

• In “Select a category” pick “Transplant and in the “All Organs” select Kidney
• Under Step 2 select “Transplant by Donor Type”

There are countless options in the different categories listed on the left hand side of the “Data’s” page. There’s also the opportunity to “Build Advanced” reports.

If you are unable to find what you are looking for, scroll to the bottom of the page and you’ll find a “Request Data” tab. You could fill out a form if there’s some data that you are unable to find.

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