Saving Lives Faster: View our Center's Median Wait Time
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Median time in months to transplant for waitlist patients at UW Health Transplant:
| UW | Regional | National | |
| Kidney | 11.5 | 36.5 | 50 |
| Pancreas | 2.2 | 11.3 | 20.7 |
| Kidney/Pancreas | 3.4 | 12.3 | 13.7 |
| Heart | 5.5 | 7.6 | 5.3 |
| Lung | 5.5 | 7.5 | 4.7 |
| Liver | 3 | 7.9 | 11.8 |
| Green indicates UW Health performed better than peer group |
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
Represents patients registered on the waitlist between 07/01/2005 and 12/31/2010. Calculated as the months after waitlisting, during which 50 percent of all patients initially waitlisted had received a transplant.
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