A total of 720 centers from 50 countries were contacted for the 2017 survey (40 European and 10 affiliated countries); of which 683 teams reported. This corresponds to a 95% return rate and includes 83% EBMT members and 17% non-EBMT members. Thirty-seven active teams failed to report in 2017. Reporting teams are listed in the online appendix in alphabetical order by country, city, and EBMT center code, with their reported numbers of first and total HCT, and of first allogeneic and autologous HCT as supplementary material. The WHO regional office definitions were used to classify countries as European or non-European. Nine neighboring non-European countries participated in the 2017 EBMT survey: Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Tunisia. Their data, 3101 HCT in 2948 patients, from 30 actively transplanting teams make up 6.9% of the total data set and are included in all analyses.
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