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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_3.1
Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure,^a United States, 2000-2005
		2005		2004		2003		2002		2001		2000
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		17.4	0.2	18.0	0.2	17.9	0.2	18.5	0.2	18.5	0.2	19.2	0.2
Age	0-19	68.2	1.4	68.0	1.4	69.9	1.3	68.4	1.4	67.8	1.4	68.0	1.4
	20-39	28.9	0.5	31.1	0.5	31.2	0.5	32.4	0.5	32.4	0.5	33.9	0.5
	40-59	17.0	0.2	17.6	0.2	17.6	0.2	18.0	0.2	18.9	0.3	19.5	0.3
	60-69	9.7	0.2	9.6	0.2	9.3	0.2	9.4	0.2	8.1	0.2	8.4	0.2
Gender	Male	18.7	0.2	19.4	0.2	19.5	0.2	20.1	0.2	19.9	0.2	20.8	0.3
Gender	Female	15.5	0.2	16.2	0.2	15.9	0.2	16.4	0.3	16.7	0.3	17.4	0.3
Race	White	22.2	0.2	22.8	0.2	23.3	0.3	24.0	0.3	24.6	0.3	25.2	0.3
	Black	9.7	0.2	10.0	0.2	9.4	0.2	9.8	0.2	9.1	0.2	10.0	0.2
	American Indian/Alaska Native	9.8	1.0	11.0	1.0	8.7	0.9	12.6	1.1	8.7	0.9	13.3	1.1
	Asian	17.4	0.8	19.7	0.8	21.1	0.9	20.5	0.9	18.8	0.9	19.9	0.9
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	14.0	0.4	14.1	0.4	14.9	0.4	14.9	0.4	15.3	0.4	15.9	0.4
	Non-Hispanic, all races	17.9	0.2	18.7	0.2	18.4	0.2	19.0	0.2	18.9	0.2	19.8	0.2
	Non-Hispanic, White	24.6	0.3	25.4	0.3	25.7	0.3	26.4	0.3	26.8	0.3	27.5	0.3
	Non-Hispanic, Black	9.6	0.2	10.0	0.2	9.3	0.2	9.8	0.2	9.1	0.2	10.0	0.2

^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. Percentages are estimated using the Kaplan-Meier methodology. Followup is censored at removal from the list, death, or the end of the 3-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_1: 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_1.html