Table 15_2_4-1

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_4.1
Bacterial pneumonia admissions (excluding sickle cell or hemoglobin-S conditions, transfers from other institutions, and obstetric admissions) 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		437.5	6.6	428.9	7.5	496.5	21.3	281.4	28.0	446.0	26.3
Age	18–44	87.6	1.8	82.5	1.8	154.1	7.1	26.1	2.6	64.8	3.4
	45–64	329.0	5.7	309.0	6.0	550.6	24.6	121.8	14.3	294.2	16.3
	65 and over	1821.9	28.7	1865.2	33.4	1471.6	65.5	1267.0	128.1	1750.8	110.8
Age	65–69	838.0	13.8	835.4	16.1	932.2	40.0	484.2	44.3	784.0	46.7
	70–74	1222.9	20.5	1221.1	23.6	1216.5	57.0	802.8	80.1	1270.0	78.6
	75–79	1815.4	30.6	1830.5	34.8	1497.3	73.4	1436.0	157.3	1953.3	123.2
	80–84	2702.6	45.6	2726.0	51.9	1989.1	104.6	2278.5	248.8	3077.8	210.1
	85 and over	4200.0	70.2	4281.8	79.8	2820.0	133.5	3790.6	432.9	4535.7	340.1
Gender	Male	484.8	7.4	480.3	8.5	523.3	22.6	318.9	32.9	463.1	27.0
Gender	Female	411.5	6.4	400.5	7.1	479.9	20.9	259.3	25.9	438.0	26.6
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	591.9	15.2	603.9	17.4	576.9	33.1	404.8	55.9	551.7	46.7
	Second quartile	428.6	11.5	425.6	12.2	454.9	26.7	287.4	41.3	419.0	29.1
	Third quartile	383.4	11.2	379.3	11.7	399.6	21.7	301.6	43.6	380.4	30.0
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	362.1	14.9	361.5	15.4	424.0	30.8	226.9	31.5	330.6	24.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	422.4	21.0	383.5	22.6	543.0	44.8	280.6	36.7	474.2	42.8
	Large fringe metropolitan	408.7	21.4	407.6	22.0	445.5	36.7	156.9	19.5	377.5	43.2
	Medium metropolitan	381.4	24.7	369.7	24.7	431.8	44.3	333.3	84.9	409.0	58.0
	Small metropolitan	395.0	32.0	392.6	32.6	448.8	59.3	263.4	50.9	322.6	65.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	524.3	17.7	521.8	18.9	492.9	46.2	*	*	585.6	103.5
	Noncore (nonmetro)	651.0	21.2	655.0	22.1	622.6	52.7	*	*	587.6	93.3
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	416.6	12.3	395.2	14.0	492.5	42.8	204.4	44.4	535.0	69.5
	Midwest	452.7	13.6	444.9	15.1	608.1	78.0	182.8	28.8	169.8	28.3
	South	483.2	13.0	486.2	14.4	438.5	23.3	*	*	495.7	57.3
	West	364.4	11.9	340.2	14.7	641.2	64.5	319.1	37.7	409.9	25.1

^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_4-1: 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_4-1.html