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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 4_3_5.2a
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with congestive heart failure as principal diagnosis (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 18 and over, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2006
        Non-Hispanic    
    Total White Black API Hispanic, all races
Population group Ratea SE Ratea SE Ratea SE Ratea SE Ratea SE
Total   32.1 0.2 34.3 0.2 23.4 0.4 28.6 1.3 29.0 0.7
Age 18–44 12.7 0.5 15.8 0.9 10.5 0.7 14.2 3.9 14.1 1.7
45–64 16.0 0.3 18.9 0.4 12.1 0.4 15.4 2.2 17.0 0.9
65 and over 38.6 0.2 42.1 0.3 23.8 0.5 33.6 1.6 31.1 0.8
  65–69 23.5 0.5 26.4 0.6 15.4 1.0 22.1 3.7 25.3 1.7
  70–74 26.3 0.5 29.6 0.6 17.8 1.1 20.1 3.6 19.7 1.6
  75–79 32.4 0.5 35.2 0.5 21.8 1.2 27.7 3.3 28.3 1.7
  80–84 39.6 0.5 42.1 0.5 26.5 1.4 39.1 3.5 33.6 1.9
  85 and over 53.5 0.4 55.6 0.5 40.3 1.5 45.6 3.4 47.1 2.1
Gender Male 32.3 0.2 37.9 0.3 16.5 0.5 28.3 1.9 27.4 0.8
Female 32.3 0.2 38.0 0.3 18.0 0.4 29.1 1.7 24.3 0.8
Median income of patient's ZIP code First quartile (lowest income) 33.4 0.3 39.2 0.4 23.4 0.6 34.9 3.6 29.1 1.0
Second quartile 33.9 0.4 36.0 0.4 25.1 0.9 32.6 2.5 29.7 1.5
Third quartile 30.0 0.3 31.3 0.4 22.5 1.1 22.1 2.4 26.4 1.5
Fourth quartile (highest income) 30.6 0.4 31.5 0.4 20.5 1.4 28.7 2.2 31.4 1.8
Location of patient residence Large central metropolitan 28.4 0.3 31.2 0.4 22.5 0.6 26.2 1.7 29.0 0.9
Large fringe metropolitan 29.5 0.3 31.1 0.4 20.8 0.9 24.2 3.4 24.8 1.9
Medium metropolitan 31.9 0.4 33.9 0.5 21.7 1.2 32.1 3.1 28.6 1.4
Small metropolitan 34.2 0.6 34.9 0.7 27.4 1.9 41.6 8.3 36.2 3.0
Micropolitan (nonmetro) 39.4 0.5 40.9 0.6 31.2 1.9 38.2 4.8 29.8 2.7
Noncore (nonmetro) 44.0 0.6 45.0 0.7 36.3 2.2 117.7 19.5 36.8 4.0
Expected payment source Private insurance 37.5 0.6 43.2 0.7 22.9 1.4 28.0 4.9 28.8 2.4
Medicare 31.2 0.2 33.1 0.2 22.5 0.5 28.3 1.4 28.1 0.8
Medicaid 32.2 0.9 36.2 1.6 29.5 1.5 26.3 3.8 33.6 2.0
Other insurance 48.9 1.8 64.1 2.2 18.3 4.2 DSU DSU 25.8 5.4
Uninsured/self-pay/no charge 45.0 1.5 59.9 2.2 28.7 2.7 72.6 11.2 35.6 3.7
Region of inpatient treatment Northeast 36.1 0.4 38.0 0.4 27.1 1.1 31.5 4.0 32.5 1.5
Midwest 29.4 0.3 32.1 0.4 17.7 0.8 22.5 6.1 23.4 4.1
South 31.4 0.3 33.7 0.3 24.8 0.6 26.8 2.9 27.3 1.0
West 32.3 0.4 34.2 0.5 25.7 1.6 29.1 1.6 29.9 1.2
Ownership/control of hospital Private, not for profit 31.3 0.2 33.5 0.2 22.1 0.5 28.2 1.6 28.5 0.8
Private, for profit 31.7 0.4 33.1 0.5 27.5 1.1 27.8 3.1 30.5 1.3
Public 38.2 0.5 42.6 0.6 25.9 1.2 31.4 3.3 28.5 2.0
Teaching status Teaching 29.3 0.3 32.0 0.4 22.0 0.7 27.9 2.6 27.9 1.2
Nonteaching 33.2 0.2 35.2 0.2 24.4 0.6 28.8 1.5 29.6 0.8
Location of hospital Large central metropolitan 28.6 0.3 30.8 0.4 23.2 0.6 24.8 1.6 29.0 0.9
Large fringe metropolitan 29.0 0.3 31.0 0.4 19.5 0.9 29.9 3.8 25.9 2.0
Medium metropolitan 32.0 0.4 33.8 0.4 22.4 1.2 34.6 3.1 28.6 1.4
Small metropolitan 34.5 0.6 35.3 0.6 27.9 1.8 29.1 8.3 35.6 2.9
Micropolitan (nonmetro) 41.4 0.6 43.1 0.6 30.4 1.9 39.1 4.8 30.4 3.2
Noncore (nonmetro) 52.2 0.9 53.0 0.9 44.0 3.0 212.2 30.1 47.3 9.3
Bed size of hospital Less than 100 43.3 0.5 44.8 0.5 32.0 1.8 37.9 4.9 34.8 2.4
100–299 31.8 0.3 33.9 0.3 23.2 0.7 27.5 1.6 30.0 1.0
300–499 28.6 0.3 29.9 0.4 23.5 0.8 29.6 2.9 28.7 1.4
500 or more 30.2 0.4 33.4 0.5 21.5 0.8 27.8 4.0 26.1 1.3

a Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, and All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender and APR-DRG risk of mortality score; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age and APR-DRG risk of mortality score.

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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