Table 3_1_1-1

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 3_1_1.1
Dialysis patients under age 70 who were registered on a waiting list for transplantation,^a United States, 1999 and 2004
Population group		2004		1999
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		15.4	0.2	15.0	0.2
Age	0–19	42.3	1.6	46.9	1.9
	20–39	26.8	0.5	28.8	0.5
	40–59	16.6	0.2	16.9	0.2
	60–69	9.0	0.2	6.4	0.2
Gender	Male	16.6	0.2	16.6	0.2
Gender	Female	13.9	0.2	13.2	0.2
Race	White	16.8	0.2	17.4	0.2
	Black	11.8	0.2	10.6	0.2
	Native American	10.6	1.0	9.6	0.9
	Asian	30.0	1.0	26.8	1.1
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	13.9	0.4	12.4	0.4
	Non-Hispanic, all races	15.7	0.2	15.4	0.2
	Non-Hispanic, White	17.6	0.2	18.7	0.3
	Non-Hispanic, Black	11.8	0.2	10.6	0.2

^a The measure includes all incident ESRD patients in the given year who were under age 70 and had a known State of residence in the 50 States or DC. Patients who received a transplant at any time from a live donor were excluded from the measure. The measure was calculated as the percentage (by Kaplan-Meier methodology) who were either wait-listed or received a deceased-donor kidney within 1 year of their ESRD initiation date.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 3_1_1-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/3_endstagerenaldisease/T3_1_1-1.html