Table 10_1_9-3

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_9.3
Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma with surgical drainage or evacuation, not verifiable as following surgery^a, per 1,000 surgical discharges (excluding obstetric admissions), 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^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		2.66	0.02	2.63	0.02	3.09	0.05	3.17	0.13	2.30	0.06
Age	18–44	2.55	0.04	2.56	0.05	2.86	0.09	3.38	0.26	2.02	0.10
	45–64	2.72	0.03	2.66	0.03	3.43	0.08	2.74	0.21	2.24	0.10
	65 and over	2.69	0.03	2.67	0.03	2.69	0.10	3.40	0.21	2.57	0.11
Age	65–69	2.62	0.06	2.54	0.06	3.12	0.17	2.59	0.42	2.74	0.20
	70–74	2.71	0.06	2.71	0.06	2.60	0.19	3.43	0.42	2.65	0.22
	75–79	2.89	0.06	2.91	0.07	2.44	0.22	4.16	0.48	2.61	0.25
	80–84	3.00	0.07	2.96	0.08	2.90	0.27	4.50	0.56	2.82	0.31
	85 and over	1.97	0.07	2.01	0.08	1.89	0.25	2.14	0.57	1.40	0.32
Gender	Male	2.78	0.03	2.75	0.03	3.24	0.08	3.58	0.20	2.35	0.08
Gender	Female	2.58	0.02	2.56	0.03	2.91	0.07	2.82	0.17	2.18	0.08
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	2.83	0.03	2.84	0.04	3.15	0.07	3.67	0.34	2.24	0.09
	Second quartile	2.66	0.04	2.63	0.04	3.18	0.11	3.45	0.30	2.32	0.12
	Third quartile	2.65	0.04	2.66	0.04	2.77	0.13	3.01	0.26	2.23	0.13
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	2.49	0.04	2.42	0.04	3.14	0.15	2.95	0.21	2.54	0.16
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	2.67	0.03	2.56	0.04	3.24	0.07	2.85	0.18	2.32	0.08
	Large fringe metropolitan	2.44	0.04	2.41	0.04	2.79	0.11	3.42	0.32	2.15	0.15
	Medium metropolitan	2.83	0.04	2.80	0.05	3.20	0.13	4.15	0.31	2.38	0.14
	Small metropolitan	2.71	0.06	2.70	0.06	2.73	0.20	3.28	0.86	2.53	0.27
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	2.74	0.05	2.78	0.06	2.95	0.21	2.56	0.49	2.16	0.26
	Noncore (nonmetro)	2.79	0.06	2.81	0.07	3.23	0.25	*	*	1.99	0.36
Expected payment source	Private insurance	2.67	0.03	2.68	0.03	2.90	0.09	2.89	0.20	2.21	0.11
	Medicare	2.66	0.03	2.58	0.03	3.23	0.08	3.41	0.21	2.53	0.10
	Medicaid	3.28	0.07	3.32	0.09	3.60	0.14	4.47	0.39	2.69	0.14
	Other insurance	2.36	0.09	2.38	0.12	3.20	0.25	3.18	0.74	1.29	0.23
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	1.99	0.08	2.10	0.11	1.99	0.20	*	*	1.82	0.17
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	2.46	0.04	2.43	0.05	3.01	0.12	2.26	0.32	1.88	0.14
	Midwest	2.93	0.04	2.86	0.04	3.45	0.10	2.59	0.56	2.79	0.32
	South	2.51	0.03	2.48	0.03	2.88	0.07	3.27	0.32	2.19	0.09
	West	2.85	0.04	2.81	0.05	3.36	0.16	3.45	0.17	2.57	0.10
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	2.74	0.02	2.68	0.02	3.23	0.06	3.30	0.15	2.53	0.08
	Private, for profit	2.29	0.05	2.36	0.06	2.41	0.14	3.29	0.41	1.75	0.13
	Public	2.59	0.06	2.63	0.07	2.98	0.14	2.18	0.39	2.14	0.15
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	2.73	0.03	2.68	0.04	3.25	0.08	2.70	0.22	2.32	0.10
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	2.63	0.02	2.61	0.02	2.97	0.07	3.41	0.16	2.29	0.07
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	2.71	0.03	2.63	0.04	3.21	0.07	2.96	0.17	2.39	0.08
	Large fringe metropolitan	2.36	0.04	2.31	0.05	2.89	0.12	3.47	0.38	1.80	0.17
	Medium metropolitan	2.81	0.04	2.80	0.04	3.22	0.13	4.04	0.31	2.15	0.14
	Small metropolitan	2.75	0.05	2.76	0.06	2.78	0.18	3.78	0.93	2.39	0.28
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	2.66	0.06	2.70	0.07	2.39	0.24	2.10	0.54	3.01	0.33
	Noncore (nonmetro)	2.71	0.14	2.66	0.15	4.00	0.57	*	*	*	*
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	2.22	0.06	2.26	0.07	2.28	0.25	2.26	0.53	1.84	0.24
	100–299	2.57	0.03	2.56	0.03	2.99	0.09	3.23	0.19	2.08	0.10
	300–499	2.63	0.03	2.63	0.04	2.89	0.08	2.76	0.27	2.17	0.10
	500 or more	2.99	0.04	2.88	0.04	3.56	0.09	3.75	0.28	2.86	0.12

^a Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma is not verifiable as following surgery because information on day of procedure is not available for all discharges. Also excludes admissions specifically for such problems, such as cases from earlier admissions, from other hospitals, or from other settings.

^b 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_9-3: 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_9-3.html