Linkage Methods and Analytic Support for NCHS-USRDS End-Stage Renal Disease Data

NCHS-USRDS ESRD Linkage: 1974-2018

• The Linkage of National Center for Health Statistics Survey Data to End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patient Data: Methodology and Analytic Considerations. [PDF – 335 KB]
  Contains an overview of the data sources, the methods used for linkage, descriptions of the resulting linked data files, and analytic considerations.

• Match rate table  [PDF – 148 KB]
  Table providing NCHS-USRDS ESRD linked file sample sizes and percentage linked, by survey.

• Sample sizes for restricted use NCHS-USRDS ESRD  [PDF – 23 KB]
  Tables providing sample sizes for each of the NCHS-USRDS ESRD files by NCHS survey and type of ESRD file.

Previous NCHS-USRDS ESRD Linkage:

Golden C, Driscoll AK, Simon AE, et al. Linkage of NCHS population health surveys to administrative records from Social Security Administration and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 1(58). 2015. [PDF – 1.4 MB]

Additional Resources:

• United States Renal Data System (USRDS) website