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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 3_1_3.1
Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure,a United States, 1992–1994 and 2003
    2003 1992–1994
Population group Percent SE Percent SE
Total   17.8 0.2 22.8 0.1
Age 0–19 69.9 1.3 69.5 0.8
20–39 31.1 0.5 42.9 0.3
40–59 17.5 0.2 23.2 0.2
60–69 9.2 0.2 6.2 0.1
Gender Male 19.4 0.2 25.8 0.2
Female 15.8 0.2 19.4 0.2
Race White 23.1 0.2 29.0 0.2
Black 9.4 0.2 12.9 0.2
Native American 8.6 0.9 15.6 0.9
Asian 21.2 0.9 25.0 0.7
Ethnicity Hispanic, all races 14.5 0.4 DNA DNA
Non-Hispanic, all races 18.4 0.2 DNA DNA
Non-Hispanic, White 25.7 0.3 DNA DNA
Non-Hispanic, Black 9.3 0.2 DNA DNA

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 three year period.

DNA - Data have not been analyzed.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

 

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