Table 3_1_3-3

2009 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_3.3
Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure,^a by State, 1992–1994 and 2003
	2003		1992–1994
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	17.8	0.2	22.8	0.1
Alabama	11.4	0.9	23.7	0.9
Alaska	31.1	5.3	28.6	3.3
Arizona	15.4	1.1	20.3	0.9
Arkansas	21.5	1.8	28.5	1.4
California	13.9	0.4	22.5	0.4
Colorado	22.3	1.8	30.8	1.4
Connecticut	15.6	1.6	22.8	1.2
Delaware	16.4	2.3	26.7	2.2
District of Columbia	8.7	1.5	11.8	1.2
Florida	17.4	0.7	22.6	0.5
Georgia	12.2	0.7	16.6	0.6
Hawaii	11.7	1.7	11.9	1.2
Idaho	32.6	3.8	33.7	2.8
Illinois	19.4	0.8	25.2	0.6
Indiana	20.4	1.2	22.8	0.9
Iowa	30.4	2.4	35.9	1.6
Kansas	20.7	2.0	25.3	1.5
Kentucky	17.7	1.4	27.3	1.2
Louisiana	12.2	0.9	18.4	0.8
Maine	23.5	3.3	36.7	2.8
Maryland	17.8	1.1	22.2	0.8
Massachusetts	31.1	1.6	25.5	1.0
Michigan	19.4	0.9	24.7	0.7
Minnesota	37.1	2.0	41.8	1.4
Mississippi	9.7	1.0	15.9	0.9
Missouri	19.4	1.3	26.6	1.0
Montana	23.7	3.6	46.2	3.3
Nebraska	24.9	2.6	33.1	2.0
Nevada	18.0	1.9	28.6	1.9
New Hampshire	37.0	3.9	31.5	2.7
New Jersey	19.9	1.0	17.9	0.7
New Mexico	15.4	1.8	22.6	1.5
New York	17.0	0.6	16.5	0.4
North Carolina	13.4	0.8	15.3	0.6
North Dakota	49.0	5.7	36.7	3.4
Ohio	20.2	0.9	27.5	0.7
Oklahoma	15.9	1.4	25.1	1.2
Oregon	29.2	2.1	30.0	1.5
Pennsylvania	24.9	1.0	25.2	0.6
Puerto Rico	10.8	1.1	6.8	0.6
Rhode Island	35.7	3.9	25.5	2.3
South Carolina	10.5	0.9	18.6	0.8
South Dakota	29.2	3.7	30.0	2.8
Tennessee	19.1	1.2	21.9	0.8
Texas	13.8	0.5	21.5	0.5
Utah	40.7	3.1	47.2	2.4
Vermont	37.8	5.5	51.6	4.5
Virginia	19.4	1.0	19.6	0.7
Washington	23.7	1.5	29.4	1.2
West Virginia	18.8	2.0	29.2	1.8
Wisconsin	31.7	1.6	39.5	1.2
Wyoming	30.5	5.7	34.5	4.5

^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.

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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 3_1_3-3: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/3_endstagerenaldisease/T3_1_3-3.html