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Increase the proportion of patients with treated chronic kidney failure who receive a transplant within 3 years of registration on the waiting list.

Target: 51 registrants per 1,000 patient years at risk.

Baseline: 41 registrants per 1,000 patient years at risk (since placed on dialysis) received a transplant within 3 years in 1995–97.

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS), NIH, NIDDK.


Renal Transplant Waiting List Registrants, 1995–97

Transplant Within 3 Years

Rate per 1,000
Patient Years

TOTAL

41

Race and ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska Native

30

Asian or Pacific Islander

DNA

Asian

50

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander

DNA

Black or African American

30

White

49

 

Hispanic or Latino

DNA

Not Hispanic or Latino

DNA

Black or African American

DNA

White

DNA

Gender

Female

33

Male

49

Family income level

Poor

DNC

Near Poor

DNC

Middle/high income

DNC

Select populations

Age groups

Under 20 years

282

20 to 44 years

110

45 to 64 years

52

65 years and older

6

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.