title: Liver Transplant Registry in Poland: Web-Netted Quality Tool in Liver Transplantation From Deceased and Living Donors.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Poltransplant managed a national transplant registry with the use of the Web tool www.rejestry.net. It collects information about all organ transplantations in the country along with outcomes. This article presents a formal analysis of data collected in the registry for the years 1998 to 2014.
  
  
  METHODS
  Results presented are actual, not extrapolated, numbers; these were calculated only for the events for which the observation was complete, meaning that a given term of follow-up had passed and the information on recipient's and graft survivals were available.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All liver transplant procedures were registered from the years 1998 to 2014, with follow-up data completeness of 89% to 99%. Detailed statistical descriptions of liver transplant results were significantly better for transplants from living donors, in comparison to deceased donors, for pediatric recipients. Results for pediatric and adult recipients did not vary if the organ was from a deceased donor. Elective and primary transplantations have significantly better results in comparison to urgent and re-transplanted cases. Results depend on indications for transplantation. Significantly better results were obtained in the case of cholestatic diseases and cirrhosis other than hepatitis C virus. Significantly worse results were obtained in acute liver failure, independently of etiology. Results in the case of hepatitis C virus cirrhosis, metabolic diseases, and neoplasms do not vary significantly.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The strength of these findings are based on the registry's reliability and completeness. The registry fulfills its aims related to collecting records and monitoring graft function, and recipient survival. The data are an important source of information, to be used by transplantation institutions and referred to in the literature.
authors: Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Surgical and Transplant Nursing, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Electronic address: jczerwinski@poltransplant.pl.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Czerwiński
authors: Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Transplantation Medicine and Nephrology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Lewandowska
authors: Department of Surgical and Transplant Nursing, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Małkowski
authors: Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Surgical and Transplant Nursing, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Danielewicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000601:surgery; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D017114:Liver Failure, Acute / Q000601:surgery; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012042:Registries; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D015996:Survival Rate; D014019:Tissue Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D016896:Treatment Outcome