Table 10_2_6-2

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_2_6.2
Selected infections due to medical care^a per 100,000 population (excluding immunocompromised and cancer patients and neonates), age 18 and over or obstetric admissions, United States, 2000 and 2005
Population group		2005		2000
Population group		Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		30.2	1.1	24.5	0.8
Age	18–44	15.3	0.7	12.1	0.5
	45–64	32.9	1.3	26.5	1.0
	65 and over	74.9	2.8	61.7	2.2
Age	65–69	56.3	2.5	49.9	2.4
	70–74	68.2	3.1	58.3	2.7
	75–79	85.4	3.8	68.7	3.2
	80–84	96.3	4.6	76.8	4.0
	85 and over	87.4	5.0	68.5	3.9
Gender	Male	30.0	1.1	25.4	0.9
Gender	Female	30.9	1.1	24.1	0.8
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	36.4	1.8	30.7	1.7
	Second quartile	28.9	1.4	26.5	1.2
	Third quartile	29.5	1.4	24.5	1.3
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	27.6	1.7	19.2	1.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	35.9	2.7	28.9	2.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	31.2	2.5	27.7	2.3
	Medium metropolitan	29.1	2.9	20.2	2.4
	Small metropolitan	22.4	2.5	21.3	2.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	26.7	2.0	20.1	1.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	25.7	2.1	20.2	1.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	28.6	1.8	23.4	2.0
	Midwest	30.3	2.5	23.7	1.7
	South	33.2	1.9	26.7	1.3
	West	26.81	1.98	22.58	1.89

^a Includes admissions specifically for such infections, such as cases from earlier admissions, from other hospitals, or from other settings.

^b Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population; when reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender only; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age only.

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_2_6-2: 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_2_6-2.html