---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 274l"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "274l"
heading: "Stem cell therapeutic outcomes database"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/274l"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part I — C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program"
---

# §274l. Stem cell therapeutic outcomes database

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) 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](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=2), cord blood, or other such product) from a donor.
- (b) **Information—** The [outcomes database](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=3) shall include information in a standardized electronic format with respect to patients described in [subsection (a)](#a), diagnosis, transplant procedures, results, long-term follow-up, and such other information as the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) 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](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall require the entity awarded a contract under this section to submit to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) 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](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=3) 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](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), physicians, patients, entities awarded a contract under [section 274k of this title](/usc/42/274k.md)[^1] donor registries, and cord blood banks.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 379A, as added Pub. L. 105–196, § 3, July 16, 1998, 112 Stat. 635; amended Pub. L. 109–129, § 3(b), Dec. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 2561.)

## Notes

### 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.