Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Ethnicity		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	1,211	1,762	2,198	2,646	3,183	3,559	4,048	4,546	5,057	5,283
	Deaths	137	230	257	290	345	394	419	505	596	480
	Rate	275.9	273.7	233.3	202.1	194.3	188.2	172.1	175.7	177.8	134.1
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	16	16	33	105	134	154	171	184	215	228
	Deaths	-	2	1	11	18	17	22	28	39	28
	Rate	-	215.7	45.8	231.7	231.1	204.5	206.4	234.9	273.7	179.1
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	218	246	570	1,642	2,596	3,098	3,628	4,137	4,575	4,760
	Deaths	5	8	7	102	261	339	373	446	527	428
	Rate	59.9	66.7	22.5	128.8	193.4	192.1	175.6	172.8	174.9	133.2
Unknown	Patients	977	1,500	1,595	899	453	307	249	225	267	295
	Deaths	132	220	249	177	66	38	24	31	30	24
	Rate	325.4	309.3	323.9	297.2	189.3	154.4	118.0	178.2	152.2	114.0

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

Patients alive on the waiting list at any time during the year are counted. Period at risk begins the later of January 1 or waiting list registration and ends on the earlier of December 31, date of death, or date of removal for other reasons. Please see Technical Notes chapter for further details about death rate computation.

(-) = None in category.

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