Researcher's Guide

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The 2005 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.

If you choose to download the document, click below the title, save it to your hard drive. Then double click that file and it will self extract the file and place it in a folder called USRDS.

Click here to view the entire 2005 Researcher's Guide excluding forms.

2005 Researcher’s Guide to the USRDS Database

Introduction
	This Researcher’s Guide to the USRDS Database is designed to assist those interested in using USRDS data to perform their own analyses.
Getting Started Sections 1-9 4 Introduction 7 Getting Started 21 Section 1 · ESRD Data Sources and the USRDS Database System 24 Section 2 · ESRD Patients 26 Section 3 · Treatment History 28 Section 4 · Payor History 30 Section 5 · Transplant Process & Outcomes 31 Section 6 · Morbidity & Hospitalization 33 Section 7 · Survival & Mortality 34 Section 8 · Providers 35 Section 9 · Disease-Based Cohort