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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 12_2_8.2a
Postoperative hip fracture per 1,000 surgical patients age 18 and over who were not susceptible to fallinga (excluding obstetric admissions), by race/ethnicity, United States, 2006
        Non-Hispanic    
    Total White Black API Hispanic, all races
Population group Rateb SE Rateb SE Rateb SE Rateb SE Rateb SE
Total   0.32 0.01 0.33 0.01 0.25 0.02 0.28 0.06 0.31 0.03
Age 18–44 0.05 0.01 0.06 0.01 0.05 0.01 DSU DSU DSU DSU
45–64 0.16 0.01 0.17 0.01 0.12 0.02 DSU DSU 0.24 0.03
65 and over 0.67 0.02 0.73 0.02 0.45 0.05 0.73 0.13 0.49 0.07
  65–69 0.21 0.02 0.21 0.03 DSU DSU 0.59 0.17 0.29 0.08
  70–74 0.32 0.02 0.34 0.03 0.35 0.07 DSU DSU DSU DSU
  75–79 0.75 0.04 0.85 0.04 0.44 0.12 DSU DSU DSU DSU
  80–84 0.72 0.05 0.74 0.05 0.65 0.15 DSU DSU 0.74 0.20
  85 and over 2.27 0.10 2.41 0.11 1.38 0.30 3.56 0.75 2.29 0.43
Gender Male 0.28 0.01 0.28 0.01 0.20 0.03 0.40 0.08 0.33 0.03
Female 0.40 0.01 0.50 0.01 0.19 0.02 DSU DSU 0.15 0.03
Median income of patient's ZIP code First quartile (lowest income) 0.35 0.01 0.37 0.02 0.27 0.03 DSU DSU 0.43 0.05
Second quartile 0.31 0.02 0.35 0.02 0.21 0.05 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Third quartile 0.27 0.02 0.28 0.02 0.29 0.06 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Fourth quartile (highest income) 0.33 0.02 0.33 0.02 DSU DSU 0.35 0.10 0.49 0.08
Location of patient residence Large central metropolitan 0.35 0.01 0.38 0.02 0.29 0.03 DSU DSU 0.37 0.04
Large fringe metropolitan 0.28 0.02 0.30 0.02 0.16 0.05 0.67 0.16 DSU DSU
Medium metropolitan 0.29 0.02 0.31 0.02 0.24 0.06 DSU DSU 0.22 0.06
Small metropolitan 0.27 0.03 0.27 0.03 DSU DSU DSU DSU 0.62 0.12
Micropolitan (nonmetro) 0.33 0.02 0.34 0.03 0.41 0.09 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Noncore (nonmetro) 0.39 0.03 0.40 0.03 DSU DSU 2.60 0.53 DSU DSU
Expected payment source Private insurance 0.26 0.02 0.28 0.03 0.26 0.07 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Medicare 0.31 0.01 0.33 0.01 0.24 0.02 0.30 0.07 0.27 0.04
Medicaid 0.64 0.05 0.63 0.07 0.56 0.09 DSU DSU 0.82 0.10
Other insurance 0.29 0.07 0.42 0.09 DSU DSU DSU DSU DSU DSU
Uninsured/self-pay/no charge 0.40 0.07 0.39 0.08 DSU DSU DSU DSU 0.76 0.17
Region of inpatient treatment Northeast 0.34 0.02 0.33 0.02 0.39 0.05 0.93 0.16 0.40 0.07
Midwest 0.28 0.02 0.30 0.02 DSU DSU DSU DSU 0.88 0.16
South 0.34 0.01 0.36 0.01 0.28 0.03 DSU DSU 0.24 0.05
West 0.30 0.02 0.32 0.02 0.25 0.07 DSU DSU 0.28 0.05
Ownership/control of hospital Private, not for profit 0.31 0.01 0.32 0.01 0.25 0.03 0.35 0.07 0.36 0.04
Private, for profit 0.29 0.02 0.31 0.02 0.21 0.05 DSU DSU 0.26 0.06
Public 0.38 0.03 0.43 0.03 0.30 0.07 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Teaching status Teaching 0.36 0.01 0.37 0.02 0.32 0.03 0.52 0.11 0.35 0.05
Nonteaching 0.29 0.01 0.31 0.01 0.20 0.03 DSU DSU 0.29 0.04
Location of hospital Large central metropolitan 0.35 0.01 0.38 0.02 0.27 0.03 0.28 0.07 0.36 0.04
Large fringe metropolitan 0.26 0.02 0.27 0.02 0.21 0.05 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Medium metropolitan 0.28 0.02 0.30 0.02 0.26 0.06 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Small metropolitan 0.34 0.02 0.36 0.03 DSU DSU DSU DSU 0.65 0.12
Micropolitan (nonmetro) 0.34 0.03 0.33 0.03 0.45 0.11 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Noncore (nonmetro) 0.33 0.07 0.34 0.07 DSU DSU DSU DSU DSU DSU
Bed size of hospital Less than 100 0.29 0.03 0.33 0.03 DSU DSU DSU DSU DSU DSU
100–299 0.35 0.01 0.36 0.02 0.24 0.04 DSU DSU 0.46 0.05
300–499 0.28 0.01 0.30 0.02 0.18 0.04 DSU DSU 0.25 0.06
500 or more 0.33 0.02 0.34 0.02 0.36 0.04 0.90 0.14 0.24 0.06

a That is, excluding patients with musculoskeletal disease; those admitted for seizures, syncope, stroke, coma, cardiac arrest, poisoning, trauma, delirium, psychoses, or anoxic brain injury; and patients with metastatic cancer, lymphoid malignancy, bone malignancy, and self-inflicted injury.

b Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, and diagnosis-related group (DRG) clusters. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, comorbidities, and DRG clusters; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, comorbidities, and DRG clusters.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, disparities analysis file, 2006, and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1. The analysis file is designed to provide national estimates on disparities using weighted records from a sample of hospitals from the following 25 States: AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, KS, MA, MD, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NY, OK, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, and WI.

 

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