Table 5.

Comparison of acute rejection within 6 months of deceased donor kidney transplantation collected for the Deceased Donor Study with rejection recorded in the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network database

OPTN Rejection	DDS Rejection
	Yes	No	Total
Yes	20	4	24
No	27	437	464
Total	47	441	488

Patients who experienced allograft failure or died by 6 months were excluded from this analysis along with patients with missing 6-month forms for either study. One patient in the OPTN dataset and three patients in the DDS dataset had no outcome reported on acute rejection in the 6-month form. Please see Table 6 for data on diagnostic performance of the OPTN acute rejection variable. OPTN, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; DDS, Deceased Donor Study.