USRDS 2001

July 31, 2001 - Click here to go directly to the USRDS Year 2001 report.

The United States Renal Data System (USRDS) is a national data system which collects, analyzes, and distributes information about end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States. The USRDS is funded directly by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in conjunction with the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). The USRDS Coordinating Center is operated under a contract with the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation.

Most of the 2001 Annual Data Report (ADR) contains data through December 31, 1999, with certain sections (those with data on patient characteristics from the Medical Evidence Form) complete through November 2000.

As in the past, the ADR is presented in reference tables. Here is the table of contents of this year's reference tables.

New Feature: RenDER

This year, the USRDS has a new feature called RenDER. The USRDS RenDER System has been designed to allow easier access to some of the most frequently requested data. While the Annual Data Report (ADR) thoroughly covers many of the statistics regarding ESRD, the report cannot reasonably contain some of the more detailed tables often requested by the research field. RenDER will allow you to "drill down" into the data behind many of the tables published in the ADR, allowing cross interaction among various demographic fields. An on-line tutorial is also provided.

Starting last year, an atlas format was added that presented the national end-stage renal disease data using maps of the United States. Here is the table of contents for this year's atlas files. These are very large files and require Adobe Acrobat reader to view them.

You can also download the 2001 Annual Data Report graphics as MicroSoft PowerPoint� color slides.

Statistics

Here is a small sampling of the statistics available in the report. These facts apply to the U.S. end-stage renal disease (ESRD) population as of December 31, 1999:

• There were 243,320 dialysis patients, rising only 1.3 percent from 1998's total of 240,097.
  
  
• There were 101,000 patients with functioning transplanted kidneys, up 6 percent from 95,094 in 1998
  
  
• 87.2 percent of all dialysis patients were receiving in-center hemodialysis treatments (212,084 patients). This has risen steady since 1994, when only 76 percent of patients were on in-center hemodialysis.
  
  
• There were 3148 patients were on home hemodialysis, down from 3721 in 1998. This number represents only 1.3 percent of all dialysis patients.
  
  
• There are a decreasing number of CAPD patients. The number of CAPD patients dropped from 15,072 in 1998 to 13,406 in 1999. CAPD patients make up 5.5 percent of the dialysis patient population. This has dropped steadily since 1990, when 12.5 percent of patients were on CAPD.
  
  
• There are a decreasing number of CCPD patients. The number of CCPD patients dropped from 9772 in 1998 to 9178 in 1999. 3.8 percent of dialysis patients are on CCPD.
  
  
• There were 92,356 black dialysis patients, comprising 38 percent of the total.
  
  
• There were 18,445 black patients with functioning kidney transplants, comprising only 18.3 percent of the "functioning graft" patients.

[This message has been edited by Gary Peterson (edited 08-01-2001).]