Table 10_1_10-1

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 10_1_10.1
Postoperative sepsis per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges with an operating room procedure (excluding patients admitted for infection; patients with cancer or immunocompromised states; obstetric conditions; stays under 4 days; and admissions specifically for sepsis), age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2005
Population group		2005		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		13.7	0.1	9.6	0.1
Age	18–44	10.4	0.3	6.7	0.2
	45–64	11.5	0.2	8.6	0.2
	65 and over	16.5	0.2	11.3	0.2
Age	65–69	14.5	0.3	8.8	0.3
	70–74	14.4	0.3	9.7	0.3
	75–79	16.6	0.4	12.1	0.3
	80–84	20.2	0.5	15.0	0.5
	85 and over	21.6	0.7	15.5	0.6
Gender	Male	15.8	0.2	11.7	0.2
Gender	Female	12.3	0.1	8.0	0.1
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	15.2	0.2	10.4	0.2
	Second quartile	13.0	0.2	9.7	0.2
	Third quartile	12.8	0.2	9.9	0.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	13.6	0.2	8.2	0.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	14.9	0.2	9.7	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	14.2	0.2	10.4	0.2
	Medium metropolitan	13.0	0.2	8.3	0.2
	Small metropolitan	12.9	0.4	9.8	0.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	12.6	0.3	8.2	0.3
	Noncore (nonmetro)	12.8	0.4	10.7	0.3
Expected payment source	Private insurance	11.0	0.2	8.8	0.2
	Medicare	14.7	0.1	9.9	0.1
	Medicaid	18.4	0.5	12.4	0.5
	Other insurance	13.0	0.7	8.5	0.6
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	10.7	0.8	6.9	0.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	12.5	0.3	9.2	0.2
	Midwest	11.5	0.2	9.3	0.2
	South	15.0	0.2	10.3	0.2
	West	14.4	0.3	8.6	0.2
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	13.3	0.1	9.4	0.1
	Private, for profit	17.6	0.3	9.6	0.3
	Public	11.2	0.3	10.6	0.3
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	12.8	0.2	9.4	0.2
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	14.1	0.1	9.6	0.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	15.0	0.2	9.8	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	14.0	0.3	10.6	0.2
	Medium metropolitan	13.0	0.2	8.5	0.2
	Small metropolitan	13.6	0.3	10.3	0.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	9.5	0.4	8.1	0.4
	Noncore (nonmetro)	9.9	0.9	7.7	0.7
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	11.6	0.3	7.9	0.4
	100–299	14.8	0.2	9.3	0.2
	300–499	13.0	0.2	10.2	0.2
	500 or more	13.6	0.2	9.7	0.2

^a 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.

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.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_10-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/10_patientsafety/T10_1_10-1.html