T3_1_2_2a

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_2.2a
Dialysis patients under age 70 who were registered on a waiting list for transplantation,^a by race, United States, 2007
										American Indian/Alaska Native
		Total		White		Black		Asian		American Indian/Alaska Native
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		17.2	0.2	18.5	0.2	13.5	0.2	32.2	0.9	13.3	1.1
Age	0-19	49.7	1.6	49.8	2.1	45.8	3.1	61.8	5.5	63.2	10.5
	20-39	27.0	0.5	31.0	0.8	21.5	0.7	46.6	2.6	15.0	2.6
	40-59	18.3	0.2	20.7	0.3	13.3	0.3	35.2	1.3	13.5	1.4
	60-69	11.3	0.2	11.8	0.3	8.5	0.3	20.8	1.2	8.8	1.4
Gender	Male	18.2	0.2	19.6	0.3	14.1	0.3	31.6	1.1	13.9	1.5
Gender	Female	16.0	0.2	16.9	0.3	12.8	0.3	33.0	1.4	12.6	1.5

^a. The measure includes all incident end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients�in the given year who were under age 70 and had a known State of residence in the 50 States�or the District of Columbia. Patients who received a transplant at any time from a live donor were excluded. 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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T3_1_2_2a: 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_2_2a.html