The 2012 Researcher's Guide to the USRDS Database is currently available. The downloadable PDF files containing the chapters are in Adobe Acrobat , you will need the reader that will allow you to look at the documents.
Click here to view the entire 2012 Researcher's Guide excluding forms.
5 Introduction 7 Getting Started 17 Section 1 · ESRD Data Sources and the USRDS Database System 22 Section 2 · ESRD Patients 24 Section 3 · Treatment History 28 Section 4 · Payor History 30 Section 5 · Transplant Process & Outcomes 33 Section 6 · Morbidity & Hospitalization 35 Section 7 · Survival & Mortality 36 Section 8 · Providers 38 Section 9 · CKD Cohort 40 Section 10 · Comprehensive Dialysis Study 40 Section 11 · Medicare Prescription Drug