(a) An OPO must provide individually-identifiable, hospital-specific organ donation and transplantation data and other information to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, and HHS, as requested by the Secretary. The data may include, but are not limited to:
(1) Number of hospital deaths;
(2) Results of death record reviews;
(3) Number and timeliness of referral calls from hospitals;
(4) [Reserved]
(5) Data related to non-recovery of organs;
(6) Data about consents for donation;
(7) Number of donors;
(8) Number of organs recovered, by type of organ; and
(9) Number of organs transplanted, by type of organ.
(b) An OPO must provide hospital-specific organ donation data annually to the transplant hospitals with which it has agreements.
(c) Data to be used for OPO re-certification purposes must be reported to the OPTN and must include data for all deaths in all hospitals and critical access hospitals in the OPO's donation service area, unless a hospital or critical access hospital has been granted a waiver to work with a different OPO.
(d) Data reported by the OPO to the OPTN must be reported within 30 days after the end of the month in which a death occurred. If an OPO determines through death record review or other means that the data it reported to the OPTN was incorrect, it must report the corrected data to the OPTN within 30 days of the end of the month in which the error is identified.
(e) For the purpose of determining the information to be collected under paragraph (a) of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) Kidneys procured. Each kidney recovered will be counted individually. En bloc kidneys recovered will count as two kidneys procured.
(2) Kidneys transplanted. Each kidney transplanted will be counted individually. En bloc kidney transplants will be counted as two kidneys transplanted.
(3) Extra-renal organs procured. Each organ recovered is counted individually.
(4) Extra-renal organs transplanted. Each organ or part thereof transplanted will be counted individually. For example, a single liver is counted as one organ procured and each portion that is transplanted will count as one transplant. Further, a heart and double lung transplant will be counted as three organs transplanted. A kidney/pancreas transplant will count as one kidney transplanted and one extra-renal organ transplanted.
[71 FR 31046, May 31, 2006, as amended at 85 FR 77949, Dec. 2, 2020]