Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Ethnicity		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	6,707	8,270	9,828	11,248	12,589	13,809	14,789	15,669	16,043	15,614
	Deaths	510	612	745	779	855	863	983	985	959	816
	Rate	95.9	89.6	91.0	81.7	79.2	71.6	76.2	72.2	70.1	76.8
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	278	366	424	476	586	649	719	790	807	813
	Deaths	20	38	45	33	33	47	48	43	47	42
	Rate	92.7	136.2	133.0	82.5	68.1	83.0	78.0	63.8	69.3	79.2
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	3,604	4,741	6,073	7,434	8,885	10,278	11,466	12,500	13,125	13,055
	Deaths	236	315	468	519	616	645	768	784	774	671
	Rate	82.5	83.0	95.6	85.7	83.6	73.6	78.0	72.9	69.6	75.7
Unknown	Patients	2,825	3,163	3,331	3,338	3,118	2,882	2,604	2,379	2,111	1,746
	Deaths	254	259	232	227	206	171	167	158	138	103
	Rate	113.2	94.0	78.5	73.8	70.0	62.9	68.5	71.5	73.8	83.9

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2001.

The sample includes patients with a new or functioning transplant at any time during the year. The period at risk begins on the later of January 1 or the transplant date and ends on the earlier of December 31, the date of death, or the last date of follow-up. Please see Technical Notes chapter for further details about computation of death rates.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = Values suppressed due to small N (0 to 9).