Table 10_1_10-2

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_10.2
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, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2005
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		14.6	0.1	14.1	0.1	17.6	0.4	20.0	0.9	15.1	0.4
Age	18–44	10.4	0.3	9.7	0.3	12.5	0.6	12.4	2.1	9.8	0.8
	45–64	12.4	0.2	12.1	0.2	13.2	0.5	17.2	1.4	12.0	0.6
	65 and over	17.8	0.2	17.2	0.2	21.2	0.6	24.2	1.4	19.2	0.7
Age	65–69	14.5	0.3	14.2	0.3	17.3	1.1	*	*	14.6	1.2
	70–74	14.9	0.3	14.7	0.3	19.0	1.1	20.8	2.6	13.9	1.3
	75–79	19.6	0.4	19.0	0.4	24.2	1.4	27.0	3.2	22.7	1.5
	80–84	21.7	0.5	20.6	0.5	28.7	1.9	39.9	3.8	23.0	2.1
	85 and over	23.6	0.7	21.2	0.7	26.6	2.4	56.9	6.3	44.5	3.3
Gender	Male	16.9	0.2	16.7	0.2	18.4	0.6	23.9	1.5	14.9	0.7
Gender	Female	13.1	0.1	12.7	0.2	14.1	0.4	16.9	1.1	13.9	0.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	15.5	0.2	14.7	0.2	18.1	0.5	23.0	2.2	15.3	0.6
	Second quartile	14.2	0.2	13.6	0.2	17.6	0.8	16.8	2.0	15.8	0.9
	Third quartile	14.8	0.2	14.4	0.2	16.7	0.9	25.8	1.9	13.7	1.0
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	13.8	0.2	13.5	0.3	16.1	1.2	16.8	1.5	15.5	1.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	16.3	0.2	15.7	0.3	16.9	0.5	20.6	1.2	16.6	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	15.1	0.2	14.8	0.2	19.1	0.9	19.0	2.3	12.9	1.2
	Medium metropolitan	13.7	0.3	13.2	0.3	17.8	1.0	18.7	2.3	14.6	1.1
	Small metropolitan	13.8	0.4	13.8	0.4	15.2	1.4	43.7	6.0	10.4	1.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	13.1	0.3	12.8	0.3	20.2	1.4	15.7	3.9	11.7	1.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	13.3	0.4	12.7	0.4	17.0	1.6	*	*	19.2	2.1
Expected payment source	Private insurance	12.5	0.2	12.4	0.2	14.0	0.7	16.9	1.6	10.5	0.8
	Medicare	15.5	0.1	14.8	0.2	20.0	0.5	20.4	1.2	17.7	0.6
	Medicaid	18.0	0.5	16.9	0.7	16.9	1.1	25.9	3.2	19.3	1.2
	Other insurance	12.2	0.7	11.3	0.8	15.7	2.0	*	*	9.8	2.0
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	16.1	0.8	16.6	1.0	17.7	1.9	45.4	6.6	11.5	1.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	13.7	0.3	13.4	0.3	15.6	1.0	19.8	2.6	13.8	1.2
	Midwest	13.3	0.2	13.0	0.2	15.7	0.8	32.7	4.0	*	*
	South	15.6	0.2	14.9	0.2	18.9	0.5	23.9	1.6	16.4	0.6
	West	15.2	0.3	14.7	0.3	17.9	1.1	16.7	1.3	14.8	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	14.5	0.1	14.0	0.1	16.7	0.5	18.9	1.1	15.3	0.5
	Private, for profit	17.0	0.3	15.7	0.3	22.6	0.8	29.5	2.1	17.2	0.8
	Public	11.6	0.4	11.6	0.4	13.8	1.1	*	*	10.0	1.3
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	13.8	0.2	13.7	0.2	13.4	0.6	19.2	1.7	11.5	0.8
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	15.0	0.1	14.2	0.1	19.9	0.5	20.4	1.1	16.8	0.5
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	16.6	0.2	16.2	0.2	17.5	0.5	20.7	1.1	16.0	0.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	14.7	0.3	14.3	0.3	19.5	0.9	15.2	2.9	14.0	1.4
	Medium metropolitan	13.3	0.2	12.7	0.3	16.2	0.9	19.9	2.3	13.5	1.1
	Small metropolitan	14.9	0.3	14.7	0.3	17.4	1.3	60.6	7.1	14.6	1.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	10.3	0.4	9.8	0.4	17.9	1.6	*	*	12.3	2.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	7.9	0.8	7.7	0.8	14.1	3.8	*	*	*	*
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	11.2	0.3	9.7	0.4	19.7	1.2	17.0	2.5	16.5	1.5
	100–299	13.9	0.2	13.2	0.2	19.0	0.7	22.5	1.3	15.6	0.7
	300–499	15.8	0.2	15.4	0.2	17.0	0.6	18.1	2.1	15.2	0.8
	500 or more	15.6	0.2	15.6	0.2	16.0	0.7	17.8	2.1	14.1	0.8

^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.

* - 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, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, disparities analysis file, 2005. This file is designed to provide national estimates on disparities using weighted records from a sample of hospitals from the following 23 States: AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, KS, MA, MD, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NY, OK, RI, SC, TN, TX, VT, and WI.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_10-2: 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_10-2.html