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Poster Board I-215

Human Development Index (HDI) is used by the United Nations to evaluate socio-economic status (SES) of countries all over the world. It is calculated based on 3 sub-indices: 1) Life Expectancy Index (LEI), reflecting general health status of a population; 2) Eduction Index (EI), assessing literacy and school enrollment, and 3) Gross Domestic Product Index (GDPI). Although most of the European countries are classified as well-developed with HDI >0.85, the differences between countries exist. The goal of this study was to evaluate whether HDI influences the rates of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) as well as transplantation outcome for adult patients with acute leukemia.

For the analysis of HSCT rates, all adult patients with acute leukemia (n=16403) treated with HSCT in 30 European countries, and registered in the EBMT database between 2001 - 2005 were included. Highly …