2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
Effectiveness of Care: Chronic Kidney Disease
Management of End Stage Renal Disease
Dialysis patients under age 70 who were registered on a waiting list for transplantation
Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure
Ratio of observed deaths to expected deaths among Medicare hemodialysis patients
Chronic Care of End Stage Renal Disease
Adult hemodialysis patients whose primary mode of vascular access is an arteriovenous fistula (AVF)
End stage renal disease (ESRD) patients who visited a nephrologist before renal replacement therapy
Management of End Stage Renal Disease
Measure Title
Dialysis patients under age 70 who were registered on a waiting list for transplantation.
Measure Source
Healthy People 2020.
National Table
2_3_1_4.1 Dialysis patients under age 70 who were registered on a waiting list for transplantation, United States, 2000-2008
National Data Source
National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), United States Renal Data System (USRDS).
National Denominator
All incident end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with Medicare who are under the age of 70 and known to reside in the 50 States or DC. Patients who received a transplant at any time from a live donor were excluded from the measure.
National Numerator
Subset of the denominator who were registered on the kidney transplant waiting list on December 31 of the measure year or received a deceased-donor kidney within 1 year of their ESRD initiation date.
State Table
2_3_1_4.3 Dialysis patients under age 70 who were registered on a waiting list for transplantation, by State, United States, 2000-2008
State Data Source
NIH, NIDDK, USRDS.
State Denominator
Same as national.
State Numerator
Same as national.
Comments
The measure was calculated as the percentage (by Kaplan-Meier methodology) who were either wait-listed or received a deceased-donor kidney within 1 year of their ESRD initiation date.
This measure is referred to as measure CKD-12 in Healthy People 2020 documentation.
Management of End Stage Renal Disease
Measure Title
Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure.
Measure Source
Healthy People 2020.
National Table
2_3_1_5.1 Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure, United States, 2000-2006
National Data Source
National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), United States Renal Data System (USRDS).
National Denominator
All Medicare dialysis patients who initiated therapy in the given year. Patients with prior kidney transplants and those over the age of 69 were excluded.
National Numerator
Subset of the denominator receiving a transplant within 3 years of renal failure.
State Table
2_3_1_5.3 Patients with treated chronic kidney failure who received a transplant within 3 years of date of renal failure, by State, United States, 2000-2006
State Data Source
NIH, NIDDK, USRDS.
State Denominator
Same as national.
State Numerator
Same as national.
Comments
This measure is referred to as measure CKD-13.1 in Healthy People 2020 documentation.
Management of End Stage Renal Disease
Measure Title
Ratio of observed deaths to expected deaths among Medicare hemodialysis patients.
Measure Source
University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center (UM-KECC), Unit Specific Report (USR).
State Table
2_3_1_3.1 Standardized mortality ratio for dialysis patients, by State, United States, 2000-2010.
State Data Source
UM-KECC, USR.
State Denominator
Medicare dialysis patients.
State Numerator
Standardized mortality among the denominator population.
Comments
Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) are used to compare mortality in annual incident populations over successive years of observation. The death rates are high during the first year of treatment, lower during the second and third years, and rise again after the fourth year.
The Medicare Compare measure pertaining to Dialysis Facility, "patient survival rate," is equivalent to the University of Michigan SMR.
Chronic Care of End Stage Renal Disease
Measure Title
Adult hemodialysis patients whose primary mode of vascular access is an arteriovenous fistula (AVF).
Measure Source
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Standard Information Management System (SIMS)
National Table
2_3_1_2.1 New end stage renal disease patients who initiated hemodialysis with an arteriovenous fistula, United States, 2008-2011
National Data Source
CMS Fistula First Incident AVF Dataset.
National Denominator
All patients in 18 ESRD networks who began outpatient dialysis in the designated year.
National Numerator
Subset of the denominator who initiated dialysis with an AVF.
State Tables
2_3_1_2.2 New end stage renal disease patients who initiated hemodialysis with an arteriovenous fistula, by State, United States, 2008-2011
2_3_1_2.3a-d New end stage renal disease patients who initiated hemodialysis with an arteriovenous fistula, United States, 2008-2011, by:
- State and race
- State and ethnicity
- State and age
- State and gender
State Data Source
Same as national.
State Denominator
All new ESRD patients in 18 ESRD networks who began chronic outpatient dialysis in the designated year.
State Numerator
Same as national.
Comments
Data for 2009 and 2010 were drawn from the SIMS Central Repository on May 17, 2011.
Chronic Care of End Stage Renal Disease
Measure Title
End stage renal disease (ESRD) patients who visited a nephrologist before renal replacement therapy.
Measure Source
National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS).
National Tables
2_3_1_1.2_1 End stage renal disease patients age 18 and over who saw a nephrologist at least 12 months prior to initiation of renal replacement therapy, United States, 2006-2008
2_3_1_1.1_2a-b End stage renal disease patients age 18 and over who saw a nephrologist at least 12 months prior to initiation of renal replacement therapy, United States, 2009, by:
- Race.
- Ethnicity.
National Data Source
NIH, NIDDK, USRDS.
National Denominator
All incident ESRD patients age 18 and over.
National Numerator
Subset of the denominator who saw a nephrologist at least 12 months prior to initiation of renal replacement therapy.
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