Table 10_1_12-1

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_12.1
Postoperative respiratory failure per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges with an operating room procedure (excluding patients with respiratory disease, circulatory disease, neuromuscular disorders, obstetric conditions, and admissions specifically for acute respiratory failure), age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2005
Population group		2005		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		10.9	0.0	10.2	0.1
Age	18–44	5.0	0.1	4.8	0.1
	45–64	9.9	0.1	9.3	0.1
	65 and over	16.3	0.1	15.2	0.1
Age	65–69	13.1	0.2	12.4	0.2
	70–74	14.1	0.2	13.2	0.2
	75–79	17.4	0.2	16.4	0.2
	80–84	20.5	0.3	19.7	0.3
	85 and over	22.8	0.4	19.3	0.4
Gender	Male	15.0	0.1	13.9	0.1
Gender	Female	8.9	0.1	8.1	0.1
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	11.8	0.1	11.0	0.1
	Second quartile	11.1	0.1	10.3	0.1
	Third quartile	10.7	0.1	10.3	0.1
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	9.9	0.1	9.3	0.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	11.2	0.1	10.8	0.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.3	0.1	10.4	0.1
	Medium metropolitan	11.2	0.1	9.8	0.1
	Small metropolitan	10.8	0.2	9.5	0.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	10.1	0.1	9.8	0.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	11.6	0.2	10.1	0.2
Expected payment source	Private insurance	9.7	0.1	9.5	0.1
	Medicare	11.1	0.1	10.2	0.1
	Medicaid	16.0	0.2	14.6	0.2
	Other insurance	10.3	0.3	9.0	0.3
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	10.7	0.3	13.2	0.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	10.1	0.1	9.8	0.1
	Midwest	10.7	0.1	9.6	0.1
	South	11.6	0.1	10.7	0.1
	West	10.3	0.1	10.5	0.1
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	10.4	0.1	9.7	0.1
	Private, for profit	13.2	0.1	11.7	0.2
	Public	11.0	0.1	12.6	0.2
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	11.0	0.1	10.6	0.1
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	10.8	0.1	10.0	0.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	11.3	0.1	10.6	0.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.5	0.1	10.6	0.1
	Medium metropolitan	11.0	0.1	9.7	0.1
	Small metropolitan	10.9	0.2	10.4	0.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	9.8	0.2	8.7	0.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	9.5	0.4	7.7	0.3
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	8.3	0.1	8.3	0.2
	100–299	12.1	0.1	10.2	0.1
	300–499	11.0	0.1	11.2	0.1
	500 or more	9.9	0.1	9.7	0.1

^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_12-1: 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_12-1.html