Table 6.
Deceased donor chain length for different methods
| Method name (see Figure 2) | Number of deceased donor chains of different lengths and number of transplants in deceased donor chains of different lengths |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length = 1 | Length = 2 | Length = 3 | Length = 4 | Length = 5 | Length ≥6 | Total | |
| S1: in + out | 719 (9.73) 719 (9.73) |
— | — | — | — | — | 719 (9.73) 719 (9.73) |
| S2: in + 1 + out | 375 (7.32) 375 (7.32) |
260 (4.31) 520 (17.25) |
— | — | — | — | 635 (9.43) 895 (12.7) |
| S3: in + 1 + chain (30) | 333 (6.96) 333 (6.96) |
112 (2.01) 225 (8.05) |
64 (1.22) 191 (11.00) |
28 (0.66) 113 (10.53) |
11 (0.34) 54 (8.42) |
6 (0.54) 41 (3.79) |
554 (8.13) 957 (11.14) |
| S4: in + 1 + chain (90) | 327 (6.68) 327 (6.68) |
82 (2.42) 164 (9.69) |
64 (1.33) 192 (11.94) |
32 (0.52) 127 (8.37) |
16 (0.37) 82 (9.35) |
16 (0.49) 110 (3.80) |
538 (8.09) 1003 (9.74) |
| S5: S4 + blood type O end | 547 (7.10) 547 (7.10) |
101 (4.22) 202 (16.87) |
29 (0.34) 88 (3.03) |
11 (0.37) 45 (5.84) |
4 (0.23) 22 (5.77) |
2 (0.37) 16 (2.41) |
695 (9.14) 919 (10.39) |
| S6: S1 + blood type match | 185 (4.22) 185 (4.22) |
— | — | — | — | — | 185 (4.22) 185 (4.22) |
| S6: S2 + blood type match | 125 (4.03) 125 (4.03) |
67 (0.97) 133 (3.86) |
— | — | — | — | 192 (4.00) 258 (4.19) |
KPD, kidney paired donation.
For each method indicated in the first column, the next 7 columns report the number of deceased donor chains of various lengths and the number of transplants to KPD candidates, averaged over all other parameters. Note that deceased donor chain length is defined as the number of KPD transplants involved excluding the final donation to the waitlist. The numbers in parentheses are standard errors.