Median Time to Transplant for Waitlist Patients
(time in months)
| UW | Regional | National | |
| **Kidney | 11.5 | 31.2 | 43.2 |
| **Pancreas | 3.5 | 8.9 | 17.3 |
| **Kidney/Pancreas | 3.8 | 12.3 | 13.9 |
| **Heart | 5.5 | 6.7 | 4.6 |
| *Lung | 24.6 | 31.3 | NA |
| **Liver | 2.9 | 8.1 | 11.7 |
| Green indicates UW Health performed better than peer group (national rate) |
Source: United Network for Organ Sharing.
*Represents patients on waitlist list from 1/01/2001 to 6/30/2006. The graph illustrates that 50 percent of UW Health patients received a transplant after the number of months indicated above after being placed on the waiting list. The remaining 50 percent of patients were either still waiting or were removed from the waiting list.
**Represents patients registered on the waitlist between 01/01/2003 and 06/30/2008. Calculated as the months after waitlisting, during which 50 percent of all patients initially waitlisted had received a transplant.