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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§274l Stem Cell Therapeutic Outcomes Database

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER II — GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part I — C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program › § 274l

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must hire a group to build and keep a scientific database of patients who got donor stem cell treatments, like bone marrow or cord blood. The database must be electronic and use a standard format. It must record diagnosis, transplant steps, results, long-term follow-up, and other information needed to track how these transplants are working over time. The group running the database must give the Secretary a yearly report on patient outcomes for each transplant center. The database must also share non‑identifying scientific summaries and data sets with the public to support research and to inform transplant programs, doctors, patients, donor registries, cord blood banks, and organizations with related contracts.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §274l

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Establishment
The Secretary shall by contract establish and maintain a scientific database of information relating to patients who have been recipients of a stem cell therapeutics product (including bone marrow, cord blood, or other such product) from a donor.
(b)Information
The outcomes database shall include information in a standardized electronic format with respect to patients described in subsection (a), diagnosis, transplant procedures, results, long-term follow-up, and such other information as the Secretary determines to be appropriate, to conduct an ongoing evaluation of the scientific and clinical status of transplantation involving recipients of a stem cell therapeutics product from a donor.
(c)Annual report on patient outcomes
The Secretary shall require the entity awarded a contract under this section to submit to the Secretary an annual report concerning patient outcomes with respect to each transplant center, based on data collected and maintained by the entity pursuant to this section.
(d)Publicly available data
The outcomes database shall make relevant scientific information not containing individually identifiable information available to the public in the form of summaries and data sets to encourage medical research and to provide information to transplant programs, physicians, patients, entities awarded a contract under section 274k of this title donor registries, and cord blood banks.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 274l, act
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 379A, as added Pub. L. 101–616, title I, § 101(a)(2), Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3282, related to study by General Accounting Office, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–196, §§ 3, 7,
July 16, 1998, 112 Stat. 635, 637, effective Oct. 1, 1998.

Amendments

2005—Pub. L. 109–129, amended section generally, substituting provisions relating to the stem cell therapeutic outcomes database for provisions relating to the bone marrow scientific registry.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1998, see section 7 of Pub. L. 105–196, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1998 Amendment note under section 274k of this title.

Reference

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 274l

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110