Table 9.7a

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

Rates for Recipients in First Year after Deceased Donor Liver Transplants

Ethnicity		Year of Transplant
		1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	Patients	3,468	3,741	3,806	3,875	4,244	4,323	4,374	4,445	4,686
	Deaths	593	638	661	607	652	693	659	693	659
	Rate	197.1	195.8	200.8	178.2	173.8	183.2	170.4	176.0	156.0
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	375	477	410	414	493	487	565	570	615
	Deaths	52	78	78	70	67	77	86	72	94
	Rate	156.0	187.0	224.6	195.0	152.2	182.3	173.9	139.0	170.5
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	2,692	3,185	3,363	3,436	3,717	3,815	3,802	3,867	4,067
	Deaths	481	552	575	535	581	613	572	618	564
	Rate	207.4	199.3	197.0	176.9	177.1	183.4	169.9	181.0	153.7
Unknown	Patients	401	79	33	25	34	21	7	8	4
	Deaths	60	8	8	2	4	3	1	3	1
	Rate	168.8	111.3	302.6	86.8	129.9	161.3	*	*	*

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.