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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 2_3_1.1
Admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complicationsa (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
    2006 2000
Population group Rateb SE Rateb SE
Total   21.6 1.1 28.1 1.0
Age 18–44 11.7 0.7 15.1 0.7
45–64 28.6 1.5 34.7 1.5
65 and over 40.3 2.0 56.9 2.0
  65–69 35.1 2.1 45.9 2.3
  70–74 40.6 2.4 54.2 2.5
  75–79 41.5 2.6 65.0 2.9
  80–84 47.4 3.1 68.7 3.4
  85 and over 42.8 2.9 66.0 3.6
Gender Male 22.9 1.2 28.4 1.1
Female 20.3 1.0 27.7 1.1
Median income of patient's ZIP code First quartile (lowest income) 41.4 2.8 57.2 3.1
Second quartile 22.3 1.5 32.0 1.7
Third quartile 14.5 1.0 19.9 1.3
Fourth quartile (highest income) 9.9 0.9 12.0 0.9
Location of patient residence Large central metropolitan 30.1 3.4 33.5 3.2
Large fringe metropolitan 16.6 1.8 23.0 1.9
Medium metropolitan 14.3 1.5 17.3 2.2
Small metropolitan 14.8 2.4 23.4 3.2
Micropolitan (nonmetro) 24.7 2.2 35.6 3.1
Noncore (nonmetro) 29.9 2.4 46.8 3.3
Region of inpatient treatment Northeast 29.3 4.0 29.6 3.4
Midwest 19.4 1.5 27.7 2.2
South 25.5 1.8 35.1 1.5
West 10.7 0.9 15.3 1.1

a Without short-term (ketoacidosis, hyperosmolarity, coma) or long-term (renal, eye, neurologic, circulatory, other unspecified) complications.

b Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population; when reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender only; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age only.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1.

 

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