UNOS Patient Services maintains, updates, and provides transplantation and donation information to patients, family members, friends, potential donors and medical professionals. Information may be requested on topics such as:

• the transplantation and donation process
• national and center-specific transplant survival rates
• Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) recovery rates
• number of transplants by organ at each transplant center

UNOS Patient Services offers patient information kits to assist patients, family members and friends in making informed and knowledgeable decisions about organ transplantation. The patient information kit includes:

• "What Every Patient Needs to Know" patient booklet (available in both English and Spanish)
• a list of all U.S. transplant centers for the specified organ
• a "snapshot" of the OPTN waiting list
• center-specific information request letter
• organ donor brochure card

For information designed exclusively for patients, family and friends, visit Transplant Living.