Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Ethnicity		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	7,265	9,157	11,396	13,594	15,799	17,992	20,052	22,005	23,107	23,117
	Deaths	695	698	810	840	917	1,026	1,034	1,060	1,199	1,048
	Rate	132.9	98.5	89.9	76.6	70.9	68.0	61.4	58.6	65.0	70.2
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	569	797	1,025	1,279	1,558	1,775	1,963	2,147	2,229	2,316
	Deaths	46	65	62	71	86	114	95	88	114	106
	Rate	113.9	113.5	79.4	72.6	70.8	78.8	59.0	51.8	65.7	75.5
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	3,272	4,613	6,407	8,366	10,612	12,869	14,956	16,943	18,258	18,708
	Deaths	215	275	450	525	663	787	843	875	1,000	863
	Rate	87.7	79.9	92.6	81.6	79.7	75.4	68.6	63.5	68.7	71.3
Unknown	Patients	3,424	3,747	3,964	3,949	3,629	3,348	3,133	2,915	2,620	2,093
	Deaths	434	358	298	244	168	125	96	97	85	79
	Rate	182.8	116.7	88.5	68.6	49.4	39.2	32.8	37.2	39.5	55.6

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).