Table 5.7a

Patients and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk, 1994 to 2002

Rates for Recipients in First Year after Deceased Donor non-ECD Kidney Transplants

Ethnicity		Year of Transplant
		1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	Patients	6,674	6,599	6,515	6,501	6,676	6,696	6,784	6,884	7,040
	Deaths	363	370	312	315	288	335	386	312	330
	Rate	56.3	58.2	49.5	50.1	44.4	51.8	59.0	46.7	48.3
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	698	794	702	664	799	815	836	899	983
	Deaths	29	41	25	24	20	40	42	30	35
	Rate	42.6	53.2	36.3	37.2	25.4	50.8	52.0	34.1	36.5
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	4,893	5,292	5,534	5,538	5,626	5,737	5,856	5,926	6,014
	Deaths	254	289	265	271	255	287	338	280	293
	Rate	53.7	56.7	49.5	50.6	46.6	51.7	59.9	48.7	50.2
Unknown	Patients	1,083	513	279	299	251	144	92	59	43
	Deaths	80	40	22	20	13	8	6	2	2
	Rate	77.6	82.2	84.1	70.1	54.1	57.7	68.7	34.8	48.3

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 3, 2004.

Includes patients transplanted during the year and having reported data one-year after transplant.

Time at risk covers the period from transplant date until the date of death or one-year anniversary of the transplant.

See Technical Notes for further details.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = For cohorts with fewer than 10 patients, rates are imprecise and are not reported.