Table 10_2_8-2

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_8.2
Failure to rescue or deaths per 1,000 discharges having developed specified complications of care during hospitalization (excluding patients transferred in or out and patients admitted from long-term care facilities), ages 18–74, 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		125.8	0.3	125.2	0.4	121.8	0.6	145.3	2.0	131.0	0.9
Age	18–44	80.6	0.5	78.3	0.8	78.3	1.0	101.9	3.9	88.0	1.4
	45–64	127.8	0.4	127.2	0.5	123.6	0.9	148.3	3.0	134.0	1.3
	65–74	148.6	0.5	150.0	0.6	139.3	1.3	167.5	3.5	146.6	1.8
Gender	Male	133.7	0.4	136.6	0.5	119.8	0.9	166.9	2.8	134.3	1.2
Gender	Female	117.1	0.4	119.0	0.5	111.7	0.8	124.8	2.8	114.9	1.3
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	127.8	0.5	127.7	0.7	124.1	0.9	152.3	4.6	133.0	1.3
	Second quartile	124.8	0.6	125.4	0.7	117.8	1.4	136.1	4.3	128.8	1.9
	Third quartile	123.8	0.6	123.3	0.7	118.3	1.7	137.5	3.7	126.8	2.1
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	125.8	0.6	124.4	0.7	122.8	2.2	153.8	3.4	133.8	2.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	130.0	0.5	130.9	0.7	123.1	0.9	147.0	2.6	134.1	1.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	120.4	0.6	121.7	0.7	116.1	1.5	122.9	4.7	116.7	2.5
	Medium metropolitan	127.6	0.7	126.7	0.8	119.5	1.7	161.2	4.5	137.6	2.2
	Small metropolitan	119.9	1.0	118.8	1.1	124.8	2.6	103.9	12.4	128.1	4.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	125.0	1.0	123.9	1.1	129.8	2.9	165.4	9.0	112.7	4.5
	Noncore (nonmetro)	124.8	1.2	124.4	1.3	124.7	3.5	142.9	28.1	118.3	6.7
Expected payment source	Private insurance	120.9	0.6	119.1	0.6	122.4	1.4	139.3	3.6	125.0	2.1
	Medicare	124.2	0.4	124.9	0.5	119.0	0.9	144.2	3.0	124.8	1.4
	Medicaid	130.3	0.7	132.4	1.1	121.6	1.3	149.3	4.4	134.7	1.8
	Other insurance	134.3	1.8	137.4	2.2	123.8	4.1	148.6	14.5	135.4	4.8
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	146.8	1.2	146.3	1.7	139.3	2.5	170.6	8.5	154.4	2.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	137.0	0.7	138.1	0.8	138.9	1.6	141.4	4.9	128.8	2.1
	Midwest	117.2	0.6	119.1	0.7	110.6	1.3	105.9	8.3	113.7	5.4
	South	118.4	0.4	118.2	0.6	117.5	0.9	114.1	4.4	119.8	1.4
	West	141.4	0.7	136.8	0.9	141.9	2.0	160.5	2.6	145.6	1.5
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	124.9	0.3	125.2	0.4	119.1	0.7	142.1	2.2	129.3	1.1
	Private, for profit	125.6	0.8	123.9	1.0	127.3	1.8	146.6	5.6	125.2	2.0
	Public	131.7	0.8	126.6	1.1	131.3	1.7	164.6	5.8	145.6	2.3
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	126.5	0.5	125.9	0.7	123.3	1.0	146.4	3.4	130.0	1.5
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	125.4	0.3	124.9	0.4	120.7	0.8	144.7	2.4	131.6	1.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	128.3	0.4	127.6	0.6	123.3	0.9	145.6	2.5	133.1	1.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	121.0	0.7	123.0	0.8	115.4	1.5	116.6	5.5	117.8	2.8
	Medium metropolitan	126.6	0.6	125.3	0.7	119.3	1.7	159.9	4.5	139.9	2.1
	Small metropolitan	124.8	0.9	123.5	1.1	129.7	2.4	114.0	13.9	127.4	4.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	126.9	1.1	127.5	1.2	128.6	3.1	170.3	9.4	95.7	5.3
	Noncore (nonmetro)	109.4	2.1	110.9	2.3	104.6	6.3	207.1	39.4	72.2	14.1
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	115.7	1.0	115.4	1.2	115.4	3.2	130.6	8.6	116.5	4.0
	100–299	128.2	0.5	127.9	0.6	121.5	1.2	148.7	2.8	136.2	1.5
	300–499	124.3	0.5	122.5	0.6	123.0	1.1	142.7	3.9	132.0	1.6
	500 or more	127.1	0.6	128.4	0.7	121.5	1.2	143.6	4.4	125.9	1.7

^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: 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 Sates: 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_2_8-2: 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_8-2.html