Terminology
& Data References
A reference of commonly used terminology and abbreviations in the donation and transplantation field, as well as data definitions. Explore the list here and scroll down the page to find the data definitions.
A
- AAR
- Abdominal NRP (A-NRP)
- ABO Blood Type
- Action Period
- Active Candidate
- Acute Rejection
- Additional Donors
- Adjusted Conversion Rate
- Adjusted Donation Rate
- Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation
- Affiliation Agreement
- After Action Review
- Agent
- Agonal Phase
- Aim
- Albumin
- Allocation
- Allocation Analysis
- Allocation MELD
- Allocation Policies
- Allograft
- Alternative Allocation System
- ALU
- American Association of Blood Banks
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- American Society of Transplantation
- American Transplant Congress
- Aneurysm
- Anoxia
- Anti-Rejection Drug
- Antibody
- Antigen
- Antigen Mismatch
- Antigens Determining Zero Mismatch Kidneys
- AOPO
- Arterial Blood Gas
- Ascites
- Associate Councillor
- Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
- ASTS
- Authorization
- Authorization for Organ Donation
- Authorization Rate
- Authorized Donor
- Autograft
- Auxillary Transplant
B
C
- C&S
- CAD
- Cadaveric
- Cadaveric Donors
- Cadaveric Transplant
- Calculated MELD
- Candidate
- CAP
- CAPA
- CAPD
- Cardiac
- Cardiac Death
- Cardiac Output
- Cardiologist
- Cardiomyopathy
- CAT Scan
- Catastrophic Brain Injury
- Catastrophic Brain Injury Guidelines
- CBIG
- CC
- CDRG
- Censoring
- Center of Excellence
- CEPTC
- CF
- CFR
- Chain
- Change Concept
- CHF
- Child-Turcotte-Pugh Score
- Chimerism
- Chronic
- Chronic Rejection
- Circulatory Death
- Cirrhosis
- CIT
- Clamp Time
- Classification
- Clinical Triggers
- Closed Variance
- CMS
- CMV
- COBRA
- Cockcroft-Gault Formula
- Cohort
- Cold Ischemia Time Cold Time
- Collaborative
- College of American Pathologists
- Common Rule
- Compliance
- Composite
- Confidence Interval
- Conflict of Interest
- Congenital
- Connective Tissue
- Consent Algorithm
- Conversion Rate
- Conversion, Conversion Rate
- COPD
- Cornea
- Corrective and Preventative Action Plan
- Corticosteroid
- CPRA
- Creatinine
- Critical Pathway for the Organ Donor
- Crossmatch
- CT
- CVA
- CVP
- Cyclosporine
- Cyst
- Cytomegalovirus
D
- Data Safety Monitoring Board
- Day
- DBD
- DBP
- DCD
- DCDD
- DDR
- Death Consistent with Organ Donation
- Death Rate
- Death Record Review
- Deaths per Day while Waiting
- Deceased Donor
- Deceased Donor Transplant
- Decline for Donation
- Designated Requestor
- Designated Transplant Program
- Devastating Brain Injury
- DGF
- DHHS or HHS
- Diabetes
- Dialysis
- Direct Offer
- Directed Donation
- Diversity
- Division of Transplantation
- DMG
- DMTF
- DNC
- DNR
- Do Not Resusitate
- Domino Donor
- Domino Transplant
- Donate Life America
- Donate Life, Done Vida
- Donation
- Donation after Circulatory Death
- Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death
- Donation and Transplantation Community of Practice
- Donation Champion
- Donation Rate
- Donor
- Donor Conversion
- Donor Council
- Donor Data
- Donor Designation
- Donor Histocompatibility Form
- Donor Hospital
- Donor ID
- Donor Management
- Donor Management Goals
- Donor Pool
- Donor Potential
- Donor Record
- Donor Registries
- Donor Yield
- DonorNet® 2007
- DonorNetSM
- DSA
- DTCP
E
- Early Adopter
- Early Majority
- EBV
- ECMO
- EDOC
- Effective Request
- Effective Request Process
- Effective Request Rate
- Electronic Medical Record
- Eligible Conversion Rate
- Eligible Death
- Eligible Organ Donor
- Emergency
- Emphysema
- EMR
- En Bloc
- Encephalopathy
- End-Stage Liver Disease
- End-Stage Organ Disease
- End-Stage Renal Disease
- Epidemiology
- Equity
- ESRD Program
- Ethics
- Ethnicity
- Evaluation Plan
- Event
- Ex-vivo
- Exchange
- Expected Donation Rate
- Extra Vessels
- Extratrenal
F
G
H
- Haplotype
- HBV
- HCV
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Heart
- Heart Valves
- Hematocrit
- Hemodialysis
- Hepatic
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Hepatitis
- Hepatologist
- Heterotopic Transplant
- Hgb
- HHS
- High Leverage Changes
- HIPAA
- HIPAA Business Associate
- HIPAA Covered Entity
- HIPAA Minimum Necessary Requirement
- Hippocratic Oath
- Histocompatibility
- Histocompatibility Antigens
- Histocompatibility Laboratory
- Histocompatibility Laboratory Member
- HIV
- HLA
- HLA Mismatch
- HLA System
- HMO
- HMP
- Hollow Organs
- Hospital Strategic Plan
- Hospital-based Histocompatibility Laboratory
- Hospital-based OPO
- Host OPO
- HRSA
- HSP
- HTN
- Huddle
- Human Research Subject
I
- Idiopathic
- Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- ILDA
- Imminent Deaths
- Imminent Neurological Death
- Immune Response
- Immune System
- Immunogenicity
- Immunosuppression
- Immunosuppressive
- Import Match Run
- Improvement Leader
- In-Hospital Deaths
- In-service Hospital Education
- Inactive Candidate
- Inclusion
- Independent Histocompatibility Laboratory
- Independent Living Donor Advocate
- Individual Member
- Induction Therapy
- Infection
- Inflammation
- Informed Consent
- Innovator
- Inotropes
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
- Intended Candidate
- Intended Incompatible
- International Normalized Ratio
- International Organization for Standardization
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
- Intestines
- Investigational
- IOPO
- IRB
- ISHLT
- Islet Infusion
- ISO 9001:2008
L
- LDF
- LDR
- Learning Session
- Left Ventricular Assist Device
- Legal Next of Kin Living Next of Kin
- Legislation
- Leukocyte
- LICOP
- Life-years
- Ligaments
- Liver
- Living Donation
- Living Donor
- Living Donor Recipient
- Living-Related Donor
- Living-Unrelated Donor
- Lliving Donor Organ
- LNOK
- Local
- Lost to Follow-up
- Lower Respiratory Specimen
- LRB
- LSAM
- Lung Allocation Score
- Lungs
- LVAD
- Lymphocytotoxic Crossmatch Test
M
- Match
- Match Run
- Match System
- Matched Candidate
- Matched Donor
- Matched Recipient
- MCOD
- Medicaid
- Medical Criteria
- Medical Member
- Medical Record
- Medical Record Review
- Medicare
- Medication Administration Record
- MELD
- Member Elector
- Metabolic Disorder
- Minority Affairs Committee
- Missed DCD Potential
- Missed Eligible Death
- Missed Organ Referral
- MM
- Model for End Stage Liver Disease
- Month
- Morbidity
- Mortality Data
- MRR
- Multi-organ Candidate
- Multi-visceral
- Multiple Causes of Death
- Multiple Listing
- Multivariate Analysis
N
O
- O/E
- OBDC
- OBRA
- Observed Donation Rate
- Observed to Expected
- OHRP
- Open Variance
- OPO
- OPO Member
- OPTN
- OPTN Computer Match Program
- OPTN Computer Registration Fee
- OPTN Contractor
- OPTN Final Rule
- OPTN Organ Tracking System
- Organ
- Organ Allocation Policies
- Organ Approach
- Organ Approach Authorization Rate
- Organ Center
- Organ Center Staff
- Organ Donation
- Organ Donation and Recovery Improvement Act
- Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative
- Organ Donation Collaborative Change Package
- Organ Offer Acceptance
- Organ Offer Refusal
- Organ Placement Process
- Organ Placement Specialist
- Organ Preservation
- Organ Procurement
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
- Organ Procurement Organization
- Organ Recovery Rate
- Organ Referral
- Organ Transplant
- Organs Discarded
- Organs Recovered for Research
- Organs Recovered Per Donor
- ORPD
- Orphan Candidate
- OTBC
- Other Antibody Specificities
P
- P-Value
- Pair
- Paired Candidate
- Paired Donor
- Paired Donor’s Transplant Hospital
- Paired Recipient
- Pancreas
- Patient
- Patient Self-Determination Act
- Patient Survival
- Patient-years
- PCO2
- PDSA
- Pediatric End Stage Liver Disease
- Peer Review
- PELD Score
- Percentile
- Perfusion
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- PHS Guidelines
- PI
- PKD
- Placement
- Plasmapheresis
- PMH
- Policy Compliance Subcommittee
- Policy Development Process
- Posttransplant Malignancy Form
- Potential Candidate
- Power Analysis
- PPO
- PQI
- PRA
- Preferred Provider Organization
- Preservation
- Prework Packet
- Prework Period
- Primary Care Physician
- Primary Laboratory Director
- Primary Non-Function
- Primary Potential Transplant Recipient
- Primary Transplant Physician
- Primary Transplant Surgeon
- Primary Waiting Time
- Procurement
- Procurement Coordinator
- Program Coverage Plan
- Program Goals
- Propensity Analysis
- Provisional Yes
- PSBC
- PSH
- PTA
- PTLD
- PTR
- Public Comment
- Public Organization Member
- Public Responsibility in Medical Research
- Pull
- Pulmonary
- Pulmonary Function Tests
- Pulmonologist
- Pump
- Pump Time
- Push
- PVCs
- PVD
- Pyelonephritis
Q
R
- Race
- RCA
- Receiving Transplant Program
- Recipient
- Recovered Organ
- Recovery
- Recovery Hospital
- Referral Rate
- Referred Death
- Refusal Reasons
- Region
- Regional Administrator
- Regional Associate Councillor
- Regional Councillor
- Regional Review Boards
- Registered Organ Donors
- Registration Date
- Registration Fee
- Regression Analysis
- Rejection (Acute and Chronic)
- Renal
- Requester
- Required Request
- Research
- Retransplantation
- Retrieval
- RH
- Right Ventricular Assist Device
- Risk Pools
- Root Cause Analysis
- Routine Referral
S
- Sample Size Estimate
- Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
- Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Sensitization
- Sharing Agreement
- Short-term Inactivity
- Site Survey
- Skin
- Social Security Act
- Solid Organ Transplant
- Solid Organs
- SOT
- Source Document
- Split liver
- Spread Strategy
- SRTR
- Standard Error
- Statement of Principles and Objectives of Equitable Organ Allocation
- Statistical Significance
- Status
- Stem Cells
- Steroids
- Survival Rates
- Systolic Blood Pressure
T
- Temporary Leave
- Tendon
- Termination
- Therapeutic Donor
- Thoracic Organs
- Thoracoabdominal NRP (TA-NRP)
- Three-way Exchange
- Time Out
- Time to Transplant
- Timely Referral
- Timely Referral Rate
- Tissue Donation
- Tissue Type
- Tissue Typing
- TJC
- Total Artificial Heart
- Total Deaths in the DSA
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
- Transferring Waiting Time
- Transplant Candidate Registration Form
- Transplant Center
- Transplant Center Task Force
- Transplant Coordinator
- Transplant Date
- Transplant Hospital
- Transplant Hospital Member
- Transplant Hospital Patients
- Transplant Program
- Transplant Recipient
- Transplant Recipient Follow-up Form
- Transplant Recipient Registration Form
- Transplant Team
- Transplant, Autologous
- Transplantation
- Two-way Exchange