Table 3_1_3-2a

2010 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_3.2a
Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure,^a by race, United States, 2004
		Total		White		Black		Asian		AI/AN
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		17.9	0.2	22.6	0.2	10.0	0.2	19.6	0.8	11.0	1.0
Age	0-19	67.9	1.3	73.7	1.6	55.0	2.8	66.2	7.1	28.4	9.3
	20-39	30.9	0.5	42.1	0.8	16.8	0.7	33.8	2.4	20.3	3.4
	40-59	17.6	0.2	23.5	0.4	9.1	0.3	19.3	1.2	10.7	1.3
	60-69	9.5	0.2	11.5	0.3	5.0	0.3	10.2	1.0	7.2	1.4
Gender	Male	19.3	0.2	23.8	0.3	11.2	0.3	19.1	1.1	12.6	1.5
Gender	Female	16.0	0.2	20.8	0.4	8.6	0.3	20.2	1.2	9.5	1.3

^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: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; 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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Internet Citation: Table 3_1_3-2a: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/3_endstagerenaldisease/T3_1_3-2a.html