title: National Transplants Registry in Poland: Early and Long-term Results of Organ Transplantations in the Years 1998 to 2014.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In 2006, the National Transplants Registry, administered by the national transplant organization, was introduced in Poland for monitoring the results of organ transplantations. Statistical analysis is published yearly in Poltransplant Bulletin and publicly available on the website and reported to European institutions. The Transplants Registry cooperates with another registers functioning on-line, based on the web-net tool www.rejestry.net. We present the formal analysis of data collected for the years 1998 to 2014.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analysis covered the total number of organ transplantations in every transplant center; outcomes after 3 months and 1, 3, and 5 years; and if data were available after 10, 15, and 20 years from transplantation. Results presented are real, not extrapolated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Some examples are as follows. The total number of deceased kidney transplantations was 15,009; 1-year recipient survival was 95%, graft survival was 88% (data completeness of 81%), 5-year recipient survival was 87%, and graft survival was 74% (data completeness of 82%). The total number of deceased liver transplantations was 3143; 1-year recipient survival was 84%, graft survival was 81% (data completeness of 99%), 5-year recipient survival was 73%, and graft survival was 89% (data completeness of 99%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The National Transplant Registry is an important tool for quality and safety systems in the transplantation field on the national level. Nowadays, the Registry efficiently and effectively fulfills its tasks related to collecting records of all performed transplantations. Monitoring function for graft and recipient survival is also satisfied. Collected numbers are an important and unique source of information to be used by transplant 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, Poland. Electronic address: jczerwinski@poltransplant.pl.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Czerwiński
authors: Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Antoszkiewicz
authors: Department of General, Vascular, and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Grygiel
authors: Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Karpeta
authors: Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland.
authors: Ł
authors: Ł
authors: Górski
authors: Polish Transplant Coordinating Center Poltransplant, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Experimental Design and Bioinformatics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Dudkiewicz
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
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000401:mortality*; D011044:Poland; D012042:Registries; D016896:Treatment Outcome