Figures & data
Table 1. Knot placements per solid organ transplant for the US and UK analyses.
Figure 1. Comparison of Kaplan–Meier plots of patient survival following SOT in the US and UK*. *Number at risk represents the number of registry patients still alive at each time point. Abbreviation. SOT, solid organ transplant.
![Figure 1. Comparison of Kaplan–Meier plots of patient survival following SOT in the US and UK*. *Number at risk represents the number of registry patients still alive at each time point. Abbreviation. SOT, solid organ transplant.](/cms/asset/48dc9678-6e94-46f3-bb97-052cd76f423c/ijme_a_2033050_f0001_c.jpg)
Table 2. Patient baseline characteristics and transplant year category.a
Table 3. Fit statistics for all parametric and knot functions applied to the US and UK data.a
Figure 2. Comparison of Kaplan–Meier plots of survival following SOT in the base-case (knot = 3 and life tables) and sensitivity analysis (knot = 2). (a) Kidney transplant survival in the US; (b) kidney transplant survival in the UK; (c) liver transplant survival in the US; (d) liver transplant survival in the UK; (e) lung transplant survival in the US; (f) lung transplant survival in the UK; (g) heart transplant survival in the US; (h) heart transplant survival in the UK. Abbreviations: K, knot; LT, life table; SOT, solid organ transplant.
![Figure 2. Comparison of Kaplan–Meier plots of survival following SOT in the base-case (knot = 3 and life tables) and sensitivity analysis (knot = 2). (a) Kidney transplant survival in the US; (b) kidney transplant survival in the UK; (c) liver transplant survival in the US; (d) liver transplant survival in the UK; (e) lung transplant survival in the US; (f) lung transplant survival in the UK; (g) heart transplant survival in the US; (h) heart transplant survival in the UK. Abbreviations: K, knot; LT, life table; SOT, solid organ transplant.](/cms/asset/2f24ba05-4bfa-44ce-942c-595587657321/ijme_a_2033050_f0002_c.jpg)
Table 4. Mean estimated lifetime survival post-transplant.
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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the SRTR and UKTR registries. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for this study. Data are available from https://www.srtr.org/requesting-srtr-data/data-requests/ and https://www.odt.nhs.uk/statistics-and-reports/access-data/ with permissions of the SRTR and UKTR, respectively. All analyzed data are included in this manuscript.