Table 16_2_2-1

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 16_2_2.1
Perforated appendixes per 1,000 admissions with appendicitis, age 18 and over, in Indian Health Service tribal direct and contract hospitals and community hospitals,^a 2005
Population group		Rate	SE
Total	Age adjusted^b	355.8	0.1
Total	Unadjusted	318.3	1.9
Age	18–44	254.8	2.1
	45–64	469.8	4.1
	65 and over	428.6	8.4
Gender	Male	355.6	2.7
Gender	Female	277.2	2.7

^a Service population does not include the Portland and California regions.

^b The total estimates are age adjusted using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; SE: standard error.

Source: Indian Health Service (IHS), Office of Information Technology/National Patient Information Reporting System (OIT/NPIRS), National Data Warehouse, Workload and Population Data Mart.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 16_2_2-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/16_prioritypopulations/T16_2_2-1.html