National Healthcare Quality Report 2004

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Table 1.28a: Persons receiving a kidney transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure, United States, 1992-1994 and 1998

	1998		1992-1994
Population group	Percent^a	Standard error	Percent^a	Standard error
Total	19.35	0.19	24.39	0.14
Age
0-17	70.95	1.59	76.61	0.89
18-44	32.53	0.43	43.96	0.29
45-64	15.75	0.24	18.30	0.17
65-69	5.28	0.26	3.98	0.15
Gender
Male	21.25	0.27	27.24	0.19
Female	17.06	0.27	21.05	0.19
Race
White	26.01	0.28	30.82	0.19
Black	9.79	0.24	14.32	0.18
Native American	13.08	1.10	18.41	0.92
Asian	18.91	0.95	28.73	0.76
Race/Ethnicity
Hispanic	16.41	0.48	35.54	0.54
Non-Hispanic	19.81	0.21	23.44	0.14
Non-Hisapanic White	28.21	0.33	30.03	0.20
Non-Hispanic Black	9.72	0.24	14.05	0.18

^a All Medicare dialysis patients who initiated therapy in the given year were included. Patients with prior kidney transplants and patients over the age of 69 were excluded from the measure. Percents are estimated using the Kaplan-Meier methodology. Follow-up is censored at removal from the list, death, or the end of the 3 year period.

Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, U.S. Renal Data System.

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