2005 National Healthcare Quality Report, Data Tables. Table 1.29a

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Table 1.29a
Persons receiving a kidney transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure, United States, 1993-1995 and 1999

		1999		1993-1995
Population group		Percent^a	Standard error	Percent^a	Standard error

Total		19.2	0.2	21.9	0.1

Age	0-17	72.9	0.2	72.6	0.9
	18-44	32.4	0.4	38.3	0.3
	45-64	15.4	0.2	16.6	0.2
	65-69	6.0	0.3	4.1	0.1

Gender	Male	20.9	0.3	24.6	0.2
Gender	Female	17.2	0.3	18.7	0.2

Race	White	25.7	0.3	28.4	0.2
	Black	9.6	0.2	11.8	0.2
	Native American	10.7	1.0	15.1	0.8
	Asian	19.4	0.9	22.7	0.7

Race/Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	15.0	0.4	20.6	0.4
	Non-Hispanic, all races	19.9	0.2	22.0	0.1
	Non-Hisapanic, White	28.2	0.3	29.7	0.2
	Non-Hispanic, Black	9.5	0.2	11.8	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. Percents are estimated using the Kaplan-Meier methodology. Follow-up is censored at removal from the list, death, or the end of the 3 year period.

Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, U.S. Renal Data System.

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