At one year post-transplant, the proportion of IPF patients alive was similar between BLT (73.9%) and SLT (74.8%); long-term follow-up showed that a greater proportion of IPF patients who received BLT vs. SLT were alive (3-year post-transplant, BLT: 63.0%; SLT: 56.7%; 5-year: BLT: 49.4%; SLT: 43.3%; 10-year: BLT: 34.9%; SLT: 20.0%) [ 12].
Since transplant recipients currently lose Medicare eligibility after 3 years of graft function, administrative records are cut off three years after transplant for a significant proportion of transplant recipients in the USRDS [ 5].
This was achieved by applying the event year cost of a transplant to the proportion of patients who had received a renal transplant during 1998 (transplant year) and combining that with the annual management cost applied to the proportion receiving a transplant during a previous year.
Furthermore, we could not obtain data related to primary evaluation, prevalence of disease, transplant rate and proportion of patients with transplantation that would allow a comparison of ATL with other diseases with homogeneous distribution in Japan.
For the analysis of the proportion transplanted, we followed all patients from the incident cohort who were activated on the waiting list before 31 December 2006 n=40611) until 31 December 2008, to estimate the proportion transplanted with a kidney alone or kidney plus pancreas within two years of inclusion on the waiting list.
A similar proportion of transplant naïve and transplant failure patients were on the waiting list for transplantation in the present study, while in the DOPPS, only waiting listed patients in the transplant naïve group were included.
Like D.C., this area shares little of the New Heartland lifestyle found in the rest of the region, as a high proportion are transplants.
In addition to the pronounced dominance, the transplants showed a larger proportion of 'rare' OTU's compared to bulk sediment.
After aggregating data on each transplant recipient's primary payer to the hospital-level, a binary variable was constructed, identifying those hospitals performing transplants with a high proportion of Medicare patients.
With the increased supply, the proportion of transplant recipients who are poor — defined in this study as adults without a high school diploma — would rise from 6percentto30percentcent.
