T3_1_3_2b

2011 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_3.2b
Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2005
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		�Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		17.4	0.2	17.9	0.2	24.6	0.3	9.6	0.2	14.0	0.4
Age	0-19	68.2	1.4	70.5	1.5	80.3	1.8	53.6	2.8	61.2	2.8
	20-39	28.9	0.5	29.9	0.6	47.4	1.0	15.6	0.6	24.6	1.1
	40-59	17.0	0.2	17.9	0.3	26.5	0.4	8.5	0.3	11.8	0.5
	60-69	9.7	0.2	10.3	0.2	13.2	0.4	5.6	0.3	5.9	0.4
Gender	Male	18.7	0.2	19.4	0.2	26.0	0.4	10.7	0.3	14.7	0.5
Gender	Female	15.5	0.2	16.0	0.3	22.6	0.4	8.4	0.3	13.1	0.6

^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. 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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T3_1_3_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/3_chronickidneydisease/T3_1_3_2b.html