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Table 1.28b: Persons receiving a kidney transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure^a, by State, 1992-1994 and 1998

	1998		1992-1994
State	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error
United States	19.35	0.19	24.39	0.14
Alabama	16.66	1.29	24.81	0.95
Alaska	33.58	7.86	26.97	3.30
Arizona	18.15	1.41	21.55	1.01
Arkansas	15.68	1.82	29.78	1.47
California	16.10	0.52	25.83	0.42
Colorado	24.60	2.10	31.35	1.47
Connecticut	17.68	1.77	24.84	1.31
Delaware	26.72	3.84	26.94	2.36
District of Columbia	7.50	1.68	14.51	1.50
Florida	19.31	0.81	23.94	0.59
Georgia	14.83	0.92	16.98	0.63
Hawaii	8.39	1.77	12.90	1.37
Idaho	38.51	4.48	33.13	3.02
Illinois	20.45	0.89	26.53	0.65
Indiana	18.62	1.33	24.58	1.00
Iowa	38.02	2.77	38.11	1.70
Kansas	18.60	2.25	26.73	1.63
Kentucky	25.11	1.80	29.84	1.28
Louisiana	12.84	1.04	20.35	0.85
Maine	30.60	4.49	38.29	2.97
Maryland	22.63	1.29	23.85	0.91
Massachusetts	22.40	1.56	27.43	1.06
Michigan	20.10	1.03	26.59	0.72
Minnesota	37.72	2.18	44.66	1.37
Mississippi	10.55	1.22	16.89	0.96
Missouri	22.86	1.44	28.42	1.04
Montana	37.90	5.02	46.64	3.41
Nebraska	27.51	3.22	34.75	2.15
Nevada	29.31	2.94	29.79	2.07
New Hampshire	33.41	4.75	33.04	2.97
New Jersey	17.02	1.00	19.15	0.70
New Mexico	14.91	2.12	23.93	1.66
New York	16.31	0.67	19.30	0.47
North Carolina	13.66	0.86	15.61	0.61
North Dakota	39.19	5.90	38.30	3.65
Ohio	23.18	1.01	29.56	0.73
Oklahoma	16.88	1.60	26.31	1.29
Oregon	26.61	2.46	29.98	1.58
Pennsylvania	22.92	0.98	27.25	0.66
Puerto Rico	11.46	1.44	7.55	0.73
Rhode Island	20.68	3.63	27.13	2.52
South Carolina	15.02	1.19	19.10	0.86
South Dakota	28.64	4.66	30.53	3.15
Tennessee	18.97	1.27	22.63	0.89
Texas	18.03	0.65	21.64	0.46
Utah	47.30	3.63	49.07	2.42
Vermont	12.64	4.55	52.62	4.62
Virgin Islands	7.05	3.60	8.63	4.18
Virginia	15.72	1.02	20.18	0.78
Washington	32.46	1.95	29.62	1.22
West Virginia	31.73	2.69	29.74	1.96
Wisconsin	35.07	1.92	40.66	1.25
Wyoming	33.92	7.89	35.91	5.08

^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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Table 1.28b: Persons receiving a kidney transplant within 3 years of date of renal failurea, by State, 1992-1994 and 1998

Table 1.28b: Persons receiving a kidney transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure^a, by State, 1992-1994 and 1998