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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 2_3_1.2a
Admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complicationsa (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, 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   20.3 0.7 12.2 0.4 65.7 3.4 7.2 0.9 37.8 3.8
Age 18–44 11.1 0.4 6.7 0.3 33.2 1.9 1.7 0.4 12.0 1.1
45–64 26.8 1.0 14.6 0.5 97.1 5.0 7.7 1.1 48.0 4.9
65 and over 37.9 1.3 25.8 0.8 108.4 7.3 22.7 3.2 92.8 11.2
  65–69 32.6 1.5 19.0 1.0 111.6 9.1 16.1 3.4 71.7 9.1
  70–74 36.0 1.7 21.9 1.2 113.5 8.8 22.6 5.7 93.5 12.1
  75–79 39.8 1.8 28.2 1.3 107.3 9.6 25.1 5.9 102.3 14.8
  80–84 48.1 2.0 36.3 1.7 120.0 11.3 35.6 8.3 130.8 16.8
  85 and over 38.9 2.0 31.7 1.7 77.4 8.7 DSU DSU 103.4 22.0
Gender Male 21.1 0.7 13.0 0.4 67.9 3.7 7.4 1.0 35.7 3.5
Female 19.5 0.7 11.4 0.4 63.1 3.5 6.8 1.1 39.1 4.1
Median income of patient's ZIP code First quartile (lowest income) 40.0 1.9 22.7 1.0 83.4 5.4 10.3 2.0 53.4 6.9
Second quartile 19.8 0.9 13.2 0.6 57.5 4.1 10.5 1.9 36.5 4.6
Third quartile 14.0 0.7 9.6 0.5 47.0 3.4 8.7 2.0 27.4 3.3
Fourth quartile (highest income) 9.3 0.5 6.8 0.4 43.7 4.1 3.9 0.9 17.9 2.1
Location of patient residence Large central metropolitan 26.6 2.2 10.8 0.9 73.4 7.2 8.2 1.4 43.5 6.5
Large fringe metropolitan 16.8 1.1 11.0 0.7 62.2 6.0 3.3 0.7 26.5 4.5
Medium metropolitan 15.5 1.4 10.5 1.0 47.0 5.3 5.7 1.2 30.8 5.9
Small metropolitan 12.4 1.3 8.6 0.9 46.2 7.6 DSU DSU 21.4 6.3
Micropolitan (nonmetro) 22.1 1.3 16.0 1.1 74.4 7.9 DSU DSU 54.8 12.7
Noncore (nonmetro) 29.3 1.6 22.5 1.3 99.7 10.7 DSU DSU 56.7 10.3
Region of inpatient treatment Northeast 25.6 2.3 11.1 0.6 100.6 13.5 9.5 1.9 82.3 17.3
Midwest 15.6 1.0 11.6 0.8 54.8 6.8 DSU DSU 13.0 2.4
South 26.2 1.2 16.3 0.8 62.3 3.9 DSU DSU 40.7 6.5
West 11.0 0.7 6.6 0.4 41.9 5.5 6.3 1.0 22.7 2.6

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.

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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