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
- Abdominal NRP
- ABO Blood Type
- Action Period
- Active Candidate
- Acute Rejection
- Ad Hoc Committees
- Additional Donors
- Adverse Event
- 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
- Alternative Local Unit
- Alternative Point Assignment Protocols
- American Association of Blood Banks
- American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
- American Society of Multicultural Health and Transplant Professionals
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- American Society of Transplantation
- American Transplant Congress
- Aneurysm
- Anoxia
- ANR
- Anti-Rejection Drugs
- Antibody
- Antigen
- Antigen Mismatch
- Antigens determining zero mismatch kidneys
- Arterial Blood Gases
- Ascites
- Associate Councillor
- Association of Organ Procurement Organizations
- At-large Committee Member
- Authorization
- Authorization for Organ Donation
- Authorization Rate
- Authorized Donor
- Authorized, Not Recovered
- Autograft
- Auxillary Transplant
B
- Backup offer
- Benchmark
- Benign
- Best Practices
- Biliary Atresia
- Bilirubin
- Biopsy
- Blood Type
- Blood Vessels
- Board of Directors
- Body Mass Index
- Bone
- Bone Marrow
- Brain Death
- Brain Death Evaluation
- Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria Evaluation
- Brain Stem
- Brain Stem Reflexes
- Breakthrough Collaborative
- Bridge Donor
- Business Associate
- Business Days
- Business Members
C
- Cadaveric
- Cadaveric Donors
- Cadaveric Transplant
- Calculated MELD
- Calculated Panel Reactive Antibody
- Candidate
- Cardiac
- Cardiac Death
- Cardiac Output
- Cardiologist
- Cardiomyopathy
- Catastrophic Brain Injury
- Catastrophic Brain Injury Guidelines
- Censoring
- Center of Excellence
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Central Venous Pressure
- CEPTC
- Cerebrovascular accident
- Chain
- Change Concept
- Chief Complaint
- Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) Score
- Chimerism
- Chronic
- Chronic Disease Research Group
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Chronic Rejection
- Circulatory Death
- Cirrhosis
- Clamp Time
- Classification
- Clinical Triggers
- Closed Variance
- CMS State Operations Manual
- CMS Tag Numbers
- CNR
- Cockcroft-Gault Formula
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Cohort
- Cold Ischemia Time
- Collaborative
- College of American Pathologists
- Committee-Sponsored Alternative System
- Committees
- Common Rule
- Compliance
- Composite
- Composite allocation score
- Computerized Axial Tomography Scan
- Conditions for Coverage
- Conditions of Participation
- Confidence Interval
- Conflict of Interest
- Congenital
- Congestive heart failure
- Connective Tissue
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
- Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
- Continuous Distribution
- Controlled DCD
- Conversion, Conversion Rate
- Cornea
- Coronary artery disease
- Corrective Action Plan
- Corrective and Preventative Action Plan
- Corticosteroid
- Councillor
- Covered Vascularized Composite Allograft body parts
- Creatinine
- Criteria (Medical Criteria)
- Critical Pathway for the Organ Donor
- Crossmatch
- Culture and Sensitivity
- Cyclosporine
- Cyst
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cytomegalovirus
D
- Data Advisory Committee
- Data Safety Monitoring Board
- Data Working Group
- Day
- Death by Neurologic Criteria
- Death Consistent with Organ Donation
- Death Rate
- Death Record Review
- Deaths per Day while Waiting
- Deceased Donor
- Deceased Donor Registration Form
- Deceased Donor Transplant
- Declaration of Circulatory Death
- Decline for Donation
- Delayed Graft Function
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Designated Requestor
- Designated Transplant Program
- Devastating Brain Injury
- Diabetes
- Dialysis
- Diastolic Blood Pressure
- Direct Offer
- Directed Donation
- Diversity
- Division of Transplantation
- DMTF
- Do Not Resusitate
- Domino Donor
- Domino Transplant
- Donate Life America
- Donate Life, Done Vida
- Donation
- Donation after brain death/donation after death by neurologic criteria
- Donation after Circulatory Death
- Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death
- Donation and Transplantation Community of Practice
- Donation Champion
- Donation Rate
- Donation rate measure
- Donation Service Area
- Donor
- Donor Council
- Donor Designation
- Donor Histocompatibility Form
- Donor Hospital
- Donor ID
- Donor Management
- Donor Management Goals
- Donor Pool
- Donor Potential
- Donor Record
- Donor Recovery Center
- Donor Registries
- DonorNet® 2007
- DonorNetSM
E
- Early Adopter
- Early Majority
- Effective Date of Contract
- Effective Request
- Effective Request Process
- Effective Request Rate
- Electronic Health Record
- Electronic Medical Record
- Electronic Organ Placement Working Group
- Eligible Death
- Eligible Organ Donor
- Emergency
- Emphysema
- En Bloc
- Encephalopathy
- End-Stage Liver Disease
- End-Stage Organ Disease
- End-Stage Renal Disease
- End-Stage Renal Disease Program
- Epidemiology
- Epstein-Barr Virus
- Equity
- Estimated Hazard Ratio
- Ethics
- Ethics Committee
- Ethnicity
- Evaluation Plan
- Event
- Ex-vivo
- Exchange
- Executive Committee
- Expanded Criteria Kidney
- Expected Donation Rate
- Expected Number of Transplanted Organs
- Expected Organs Transplanted per 100 Donors
- Expeditious task force
- Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Extra Vessels
- Extratrenal
F
- Family Care Specialist
- Final Rule
- Finance Committee
- First Person Authorization
- First Person Consent Legislation
- First Things First
- Food and Drug Administration
- Forced Expiratory Volume in One Second
- Forced Vital Capacity
- Freedom of Information Act
- Fulminant
- Fulminant Hepatic Failure
- Functional Status
- Fungal Disease
G
H
- Haplotype
- Health and Human Services
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Health Maintenance Organization
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- Heart
- Heart Valves
- Hematocrit
- Hemodialysis
- Hemoglobin
- Hepatic
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Hepatitis
- Hepatitis B Virus
- Hepatitis C Virus
- Hepatologist
- Heterotopic Transplant
- High Blood Pressure (hypertension)
- High Leverage Changes
- HIPAA Covered Entity
- HIPAA Minimum Necessary Requirement
- Hippocratic Oath
- Histocompatibility
- Histocompatibility Antigens
- Histocompatibility Committee
- Histocompatibility Laboratory
- HIV Organ Policy Equity Act
- HLA Mismatch
- Hollow Organs
- Honor Walk
- Hospital Strategic Plan
- Hospital-based Histocompatibility Laboratory
- Hospital-based OPO
- Host Organ Procurement Organization
- Huddle
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- Human Leukocyte Antigen
- Human Leukocyte Antigen System
- Human Research Subject
- Hypothermic machine perfusion
I
- Idiopathic
- Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Imminent Deaths
- Imminent Neurological Death
- Immune Response
- Immune System
- Immunogenicity
- Immunosuppression
- Immunosuppressive
- Immunosuppressive Drugs
- Import Match Run
- Improvement Leader
- In-Hospital Deaths
- In-service Hospital Education
- Inactive Candidate
- Inclusion
- Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model
- Independent Histocompatibility Laboratory
- Independent Living Donor Advocate
- Independent OPO
- Individual Member
- Induction Therapy
- Infection
- Inflammation
- Informed Consent
- Innovator
- Inotropes
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
- Institutional Review Board
- Intended Candidate
- Intended Incompatible
- International Normalized Ratio
- International Organization for Standardization
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
- Interpretative Guidance
- Intestine
- Investigational
- Islet Infusion
- ISO 9001:2008
K
L
- Learning Session
- Left Ventricular Assist Device
- Legal Next of Kin / Legal Authorizing Party
- Legislation
- Leukocyte
- Life-years
- Ligaments
- Liver
- Liver and Intestinal Organ Transplantation Committee
- Liver Simulated Allocation Model
- Living Donation
- Living Donor
- Living Donor Committee
- Living Donor Follow-up Form
- Living Donor Organ
- Living Donor Recipient
- Living Donor Registration Form
- Living-Related Donor
- Living-Unrelated Donor
- Local
- Lost to Follow-up
- Lower Respiratory Specimen
- Lung Allocation Score
- Lung Review Board
- Lungs
- Lymphocytotoxic Crossmatch Test
M
- Malignancy
- Marginal Donor
- Match
- Match Run
- Match System
- Matched Candidate
- Matched Donor
- Matched Recipient
- Medicaid
- Medical Record
- Medical Record Review
- Medical/Scientific Member
- Medically Complex Organ
- Medicare
- Medication Administration Record
- Member
- Member Elector
- Membership and Professional Standards Committee
- Metabolic Disorder
- Minority Affairs Committee
- Mismatch
- Missed DCD Potential
- Missed Eligible Death
- Missed Organ Referral
- Model for End Stage Liver Disease
- Model-identified offer filter
- Moment of Silence
- Month
- Morbidity
- Mortality Data
- Multi-organ Candidate
- Multi-visceral
- Multiple Causes of Death
- Multiple Listing
- Multivariate Analysis
N
- National Academcies of Science, Engineering and Medicine
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- National Institutes of Health
- National Kidney Foundation
- National Liver Review Board
- National Organ Transplant Act
- Neonatatology
- Nephrologist
- New York Heart Association Functional Classification
- Non-Directed Donor
- Non-domino therapeutic Donor
- Non-Function
- Non-heartbeating Donor
- Non-US citizen/Non-US resident
- Noncompliance
- Normothermic regional perfusion
- North American Transplant Coordinators Organization
O
- Observed Donation Rate
- Observed Organs Transplanted per 100 Donors
- Observed to Expected
- Offer Acceptance Rate Ratio
- Offer Acceptance Ratio
- Office for Human Research Protections
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
- Open variance
- Operations Committee
- OPO Member
- OPO-specific reports
- OPTN Charter
- OPTN computer match program
- OPTN Computer Registration Fee
- OPTN Computer System
- OPTN Contractor
- OPTN Final Rule
- OPTN Membership
- OPTN obligations
- 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 Nonuse
- Organ Nonuse Rate
- 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 Procurement Organization Committee
- Organ Recovery Rate
- Organ Referral/Notification
- Organ transplant
- Organ Transplant Breakthrough Collaborative
- Organ Yield
- Organ Yield per Donor
- Organs authorized for recovery
- Organs discarded
- Organs recovered for research
- Organs recovered per donor
- Organs transplanted per donor
- Orphan candidate
- Other antibody specificities
P
- Pair
- Paired candidate
- Paired donor
- Paired donor’s transplant hospital
- Paired recipient
- Pancreas
- Pancreas Transplant Alone
- Pancreas Transplantation Committee
- Panel Reactive Antibody
- Past Medical History
- Past Surgical History
- Patient
- Patient Affairs Committee
- Patient Self-Determination Act
- Patient Survival
- Patient-years
- PCO2
- Pediatric End Stage Liver Disease (PELD) Scoring System
- Pediatric Transplantation Committee
- Peer Review
- Percentile
- Performance benchmark
- Performance Improvement
- Performance Tiers
- Perfusion
- Peripheral blood stem cells
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- PHS Guidelines
- Placement
- Plan for Quality Improvement
- Plan-Do-Study-Act
- Planned Donation Conversation
- Planned Removal of a Uterus
- Plasmapheresis
- Policy Development Process
- Policy Oversight Committee
- Polycystic Kidney Disease
- Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder
- Posttransplant Malignancy Form
- Potential Candidate
- Potential Donor
- Potential transplant recipient
- Power Analysis
- Pre-Transplant Mortality Rate Ratio
- Preemptive Kidney Transplantation
- Preferred Provider Organization
- Premature Ventricular Contractions
- 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
- Probability value
- Procurement
- Procurement Coordinator
- Program Coverage Plan
- Program Goals
- Program-specific report
- Project Officer
- Propensity Analysis
- Provisional yes
- Public Comment
- Public Organization Member
- Public Responsibility in Medical Research
- Pull
- Pulmonary
- Pulmonary Function Tests
- Pulmonologist
- Pump
- Pump Time
- Push
- Pyelonephritis
Q
R
- Race
- Receiving transplant program
- Recipient
- Recipient Histocompatibility Form
- Recovered donors
- Recovered organ
- Recovery (organ)
- 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
- Renal
- Requester
- Required Request
- Research
- Retransplantation
- Retrieval
- 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
- Security incident
- Sensitization
- Sharing Agreement
- Sharing arrangements
- Short-term Inactivity
- Site Survey
- Skin
- Social Security Act, Section 1138
- Solid Organ Transplant
- Solid Organs
- Source document
- Split liver
- Spread Strategy
- Standard Criteria Donor
- Standard Criteria Donor Kidney
- Standard Error
- Standards
- 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
- The Joint Commission
- Therapeutic donor
- Thoracic Organ Transplantation Committee
- Thoracic Organs
- Thoracoabdominal NRP
- Three-way exchange
- Tier 1 OPO
- Tier 2 OPO
- Tier 3 OPO
- Time to Transplant
- Time-out
- Timely Referral Rate
- Timely Referral/Notification
- Tissue
- Tissue Donation
- Tissue Type
- Tissue Typing
- Total Artificial Heart
- Total Deaths in the DSA
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
- Transferring Waiting Time
- TransNetSM
- Transplant Administrators Committee
- Transplant Candidate Registration Form
- Transplant Center
- Transplant Center Task Force
- Transplant Coordinator
- Transplant Coordinators Committee
- 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
- Transplantation rate measure
- Transplantation, Allogenic (allograft)
- Two-way exchange
U
- U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act
- U.S. Standard Death Certificate
- Unacceptable antigens
- Uncontrolled DCD
- UNetSM
- Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
- Uniform Brain Death Act
- Uniform Determination of Death Act
- United Network for Organ Sharing
- United States (U.S.) Public Health Service (PHS) Guideline
- United States Renal Data System
- United States Renal Data System
- Univariate Analysis
- Unplanned Mentions
