Table 15_2_1-1

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 15_2_1.1
Admissions for hypertension (excluding patients with cardiac procedures, obstetric conditions, and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, 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		48.8	1.3	32.0	0.8	155.9	7.0	30.2	2.9	68.7	6.4
Age	18–44	17.4	0.5	9.2	0.3	67.8	3.0	5.2	0.8	11.1	0.8
	45–64	61.0	1.8	34.5	1.0	240.0	11.2	28.4	3.7	78.3	6.4
	65 and over	122.4	3.2	99.1	2.6	264.6	13.7	100.1	10.3	210.1	23.8
Age	65–69	84.9	2.6	57.6	1.9	243.7	14.6	66.3	8.1	149.6	15.9
	70–74	106.1	3.2	79.0	2.7	271.2	16.5	94.4	12.0	188.4	20.6
	75–79	125.7	3.9	101.1	3.5	262.7	16.7	123.7	17.2	251.7	29.9
	80–84	157.7	4.9	135.3	4.5	298.8	19.6	135.6	22.1	292.2	37.9
	85 and over	174.1	5.4	158.8	5.1	257.3	19.6	140.1	22.7	284.3	48.1
Gender	Male	38.7	1.0	25.6	0.7	128.8	5.8	17.2	1.8	52.0	4.8
Gender	Female	55.8	1.5	36.0	0.9	177.1	8.2	39.7	4.2	80.6	7.6
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	84.2	3.3	49.0	1.8	184.8	11.0	47.6	10.3	92.7	10.5
	Second quartile	45.6	1.7	31.6	1.2	139.5	8.0	33.2	6.0	66.4	7.9
	Third quartile	37.7	1.5	27.4	1.2	129.7	8.9	34.8	4.9	54.5	5.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	31.6	1.5	26.0	1.3	119.3	9.3	20.7	2.2	37.2	3.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	63.6	4.0	31.9	2.1	170.8	14.0	32.6	4.2	82.7	11.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	44.0	2.7	31.6	1.9	147.9	13.5	24.1	3.7	54.9	6.3
	Medium metropolitan	37.1	2.8	26.4	2.1	122.2	12.8	20.3	4.2	52.9	9.1
	Small metropolitan	35.3	3.2	25.8	2.4	136.8	18.9	30.0	7.6	34.0	7.5
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	47.7	2.2	37.1	1.9	167.7	16.1	*	*	62.3	11.3
	Noncore (nonmetro)	58.9	2.8	47.8	2.2	192.5	20.7	*	*	60.7	10.2
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	49.4	3.0	28.2	1.4	177.2	18.3	34.4	6.0	107.0	17.3
	Midwest	42.0	2.2	29.9	1.5	167.7	20.5	*	*	19.3	3.5
	South	64.6	2.6	42.1	1.7	148.7	8.5	*	*	94.8	14.9
	West	29.3	1.5	20.9	1.4	134.5	15.9	28.0	3.1	37.6	2.9

^a 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.

* - 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 15_2_1-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/15_healthcareutilization/T15_2_1-1.html