Table 16_2_2-2

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 16_2_2.2
Admissions with perforated appendix per 1,000 admissions, age 18 and over, with appendicitis (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions), 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		287.2	1.6	282.7	1.9	317.3	5.9	270.1	8.2	283.2	4.0
Age	18–44	209.5	2.5	202.6	2.9	230.8	7.0	211.1	10.9	219.9	4.6
	45–64	395.2	3.7	402.0	4.2	426.2	13.2	342.6	15.9	347.4	10.1
	65 and over	537.3	5.5	538.4	5.9	606.6	22.1	500.3	24.9	503.0	19.3
Age	65–69	502.1	9.4	503.3	10.4	576.1	38.6	424.0	46.8	494.1	29.2
	70–74	515.9	10.8	521.5	12.2	575.4	43.6	482.1	46.0	451.8	39.9
	75–79	567.5	11.7	566.4	12.6	688.7	50.5	528.5	58.2	523.5	45.1
	80–84	570.7	14.6	567.2	16.1	621.0	68.6	619.3	65.3	538.0	58.0
	85 and over	602.4	17.8	595.0	18.9	630.9	81.9	592.4	108.4	658.2	85.1
Gender	Male	308.0	2.2	300.8	2.7	338.5	8.4	291.6	11.6	314.4	5.6
Gender	Female	260.1	2.3	258.9	2.7	289.5	8.0	244.8	11.4	243.5	5.8
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	308.8	3.3	304.4	4.4	321.9	8.7	312.1	22.2	302.2	6.6
	Second quartile	294.2	3.2	289.7	3.9	310.3	12.1	302.7	20.2	276.3	7.7
	Third quartile	284.3	3.0	282.0	3.5	318.6	13.6	255.4	15.2	273.8	8.0
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	265.8	2.9	266.7	3.3	294.7	15.6	248.3	11.8	257.7	9.3
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	282.7	2.7	274.8	3.7	307.8	8.4	265.1	10.7	280.9	5.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	275.8	3.2	272.4	3.6	321.4	12.5	267.0	20.0	253.6	9.3
	Medium metropolitan	289.0	3.6	284.7	4.2	339.6	15.2	272.8	19.3	283.8	9.3
	Small metropolitan	305.5	5.9	296.3	6.5	316.5	23.0	247.9	42.2	312.5	21.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	301.2	5.1	297.5	5.6	303.6	24.0	255.0	27.1	358.6	18.7
	Noncore (nonmetro)	306.4	6.7	301.8	7.2	319.2	28.8	*	*	355.5	26.8
Expected payment source	Private insurance	273.6	2.6	275.3	2.9	292.7	9.0	255.9	10.8	242.9	7.4
	Medicare	313.8	13.1	308.2	15.3	287.1	24.3	157.5	23.2	316.1	33.7
	Medicaid	308.3	6.3	320.0	9.4	312.2	16.7	290.7	24.8	294.4	10.0
	Other insurance	312.6	8.9	294.7	11.3	257.8	23.0	310.3	34.4	330.1	16.0
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	324.0	6.5	325.2	9.7	310.0	13.3	318.2	24.1	307.5	8.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	265.3	3.2	265.9	3.8	303.3	12.1	234.1	16.7	235.4	9.2
	Midwest	294.4	3.8	292.2	4.1	326.5	14.8	246.6	28.7	266.9	18.9
	South	299.4	2.8	292.3	3.3	326.5	8.3	254.6	20.5	297.1	6.6
	West	282.3	3.2	273.0	4.3	296.0	16.2	276.4	10.9	293.2	6.2
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	281.7	1.9	279.4	2.2	310.6	7.0	263.5	9.3	269.2	5.0
	Private, for profit	294.8	4.2	286.5	5.2	323.1	15.0	276.0	24.8	292.1	8.7
	Public	311.9	4.8	302.3	6.1	344.8	14.8	302.1	21.9	328.1	10.0
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	279.3	3.1	274.0	4.1	318.6	9.5	270.0	14.0	264.7	7.0
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	289.9	1.9	285.2	2.2	315.8	7.5	270.9	10.1	290.7	4.8
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	280.9	2.7	269.6	3.5	314.8	8.6	268.4	10.5	281.3	5.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	274.8	3.4	272.4	3.8	309.6	12.3	251.6	22.2	251.7	9.5
	Medium metropolitan	292.0	3.6	288.9	4.2	331.2	14.8	262.9	18.9	288.5	9.3
	Small metropolitan	314.2	5.7	304.1	6.2	329.4	21.9	306.0	42.9	335.9	21.5
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	299.6	5.0	298.4	5.5	286.1	22.3	269.5	27.9	327.4	18.5
	Noncore (nonmetro)	298.5	9.0	294.8	9.7	296.9	36.0	*	*	284.6	33.3
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	294.8	4.1	292.6	4.6	326.6	20.7	286.5	34.5	306.0	13.6
	100–299	280.0	2.4	277.1	2.9	299.7	9.4	268.6	10.9	274.8	6.1
	300–499	296.4	3.2	286.8	3.9	333.7	10.3	273.2	16.7	300.0	7.1
	500 or more	284.2	4.1	280.2	5.1	320.5	12.3	258.9	20.0	263.4	9.2

^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 16_2_2-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/16_prioritypopulations/T16_2_2-2.html