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

PRA at Transplant		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
0%-9%	Patients	5,297	5,252	5,103	5,125	5,266	5,073	5,159	5,338	5,418
	Deaths	274	280	246	258	216	249	294	235	255
	Rate	53.5	55.3	49.8	52.1	42.1	50.7	59.1	45.3	48.5
10%-79%	Patients	777	731	798	737	738	794	816	741	794
	Deaths	53	47	39	30	38	39	53	36	39
	Rate	71.1	67.0	50.5	42.0	53.3	50.8	67.8	50.1	50.8
80%+	Patients	219	232	248	249	208	258	266	277	332
	Deaths	16	22	14	7	12	17	14	18	9
	Rate	76.3	101.0	58.5	28.6	59.7	68.9	54.7	68.0	27.4
Unknown	Patients	381	384	366	390	464	571	543	528	496
	Deaths	20	21	13	20	22	30	25	23	27
	Rate	54.5	57.1	36.2	52.9	48.8	54.4	47.3	44.7	56.4

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.