Table 2.

Outcomes of kidney offers from 2007 to 2012 in the United States (n=7,137,831 offers)

Category, Specific Outcome	n, 1000	%a
Kidney transplanted	49	0.7
Donor-related refusal	3232	45.0
Donor age or quality	2194	30.7
Organ-specific donor issue such as testing unavailable or unacceptable, or abnormal biopsy	265	3.7
Other, e.g., donor blood type, donor size or weight, donor social history	772	10.8
Transplant center bypassed for prespecified criteria	3167	44.0
Not offered because minimal acceptance criteria not met	949	13.3
Directed donation	765	10.7
Other, e.g., offer not made due to expedited placement attempt	1453	20.3
Recipient-related refusal	141	2.0
Patient ill, unavailable, refused, or temporarily unsuitable	130	1.8
Multiple organ transplant or different laterality required	9	0.1
Other, e.g., patient’s condition improved or already transplanted	2	0.03
Histocompatibility-related refusal	97	1.4
Positive crossmatch	48	0.7
No serum available for crossmatch	25	0.3
Other, e.g., unacceptable antigens or high panel reactive antibodies	18	0.3
Program-related refusal	29	0.4
Too far for the organ recovery team to travel or too far to ship	19	0.3
Transplant center refused due to transportation, logistics, inclement weather, or unable to travel for procurement	5	0.07
Other, e.g., exceeded 1 h response time or heavy workload	5	0.07
Other reason for refusal	423	5.9

^aPercentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.