Transplant Program Evaluation Worksheet

Transplant Program Evaluation Worksheet

Key Outcome Indicators

Transplant Type: Heart/Lung

Tips and ideas about choosing a transplant program.

Choosing a transplant center, or more specifically a transplant program, is perhaps one of the most important decisions you may ever make. Our suggestion is to review key transplant outcome indicators and ask a lot of questions! INTERLINK’s Quality Assurance Program has recommended standards our participating centers must meet to be a credentialed center, and we have provided some of those standards to aide in your evaluation. This Key Outcomes Indicator Worksheet compares and contrasts the surgical histories and outcomes of transplant programs you are likely considering. As is common with most skilled professions and trades, experience is an important consideration.

Some of the information provided was gathered from Facility Fact Sheets that are also included in your Candidate Education Booklet. If you would like to review information for centers not quality monitored by INTERLINK, follow the links below and/or contact the transplant center’s transplant coordinator for their outcome information.

Information Description / INTERLINK Recommended Standard (IRS) / Heart/Lung Transplant Program A / Heart/Lung
Transplant Program B / Heart/Lung Transplant Program C
Information About The Transplant Program / Transplant team and program together for a minimum of two years.
Year Established / http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/latestData/stateData.asp?
type=center
Total # Heart/Lung TX
Year Medicare Certified / http://www.cms.gov/ApprovedTransplantCenters/
Transplant Volumes
# Heart/Lung TX 2010 / IRS = No Requirement
# Heart/Lung TX 2011 / IRS = No Requirement
# Heart/Lung TX 2012 / IRS = No Requirement
IRS = Heart and Lung programs Medicare certified
Information Description / INTERLINK Recommended Standard (IRS) / Heart/Lung Transplant Program A / Heart/Lung
Transplant Program B / Heart/Lung Transplant Program C
Median Time To Transplant / National Average: >2,160 days
Days /
Type O
Type A
Type B
Type AB
Survival Outcomes /
Patient Survival 1 month
Patient Survival 1 year
Patient Survival 3 year
Graft Survival 1 month
Graft Survival 1 year
Graft Survival 3 year
Information Description / INTERLINK Recommended Standard (IRS) / Heart/Lung Transplant Program A / Heart/Lung
Transplant Program B / Heart/Lung Transplant Program C
UNOS Risk Adjustment / IRS = Survival Statistically Higher (SH) or
Not Statistically Different (NSD)
Patient Survival 1 month /
Patient Survival 1 year
Patient Survival 3 year
Graft Survival 1 month
Graft Survival 1 year
Graft Survival 3 year
Specialty Services
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Heart Transplant Program
Lung Transplant Program