Table 16_6_5-1

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_6_5.1
Admissions with perforated appendix per 1,000 admissions with appendicitis (excluding transfers from other institutions, obstetric admissions, normal newborns, and neonates),^a ages 1–17, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2005
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		298.6	3.2	272.9	3.9	367.0	11.5	290.2	17.6	328.0	5.6
Age	1–4	627.8	14.7	590.1	24.0	610.4	60.3	659.5	88.3	661.3	18.9
	5–9	359.0	6.7	313.9	8.2	429.3	24.6	324.1	35.6	410.9	10.8
	10–14	278.5	5.0	254.2	5.8	374.2	18.2	290.9	28.0	306.9	9.3
	15–17	218.1	5.2	211.0	6.5	254.6	17.9	194.0	29.9	226.6	9.9
Gender	Male	298.3	4.1	269.5	4.9	370.8	14.2	258.6	21.9	334.1	7.3
Gender	Female	299.4	5.0	278.1	6.2	362.3	19.3	336.6	29.2	319.7	8.8
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	324.1	5.6	280.8	8.4	391.8	16.8	339.1	44.5	345.6	8.7
	Second quartile	298.6	5.8	267.0	7.5	365.8	22.7	273.5	44.5	335.7	10.3
	Third quartile	296.7	5.6	284.6	7.2	307.5	26.8	235.8	30.6	312.1	10.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	271.3	5.7	263.1	6.4	351.2	29.5	286.7	27.0	285.9	14.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	321.1	5.5	279.8	7.8	382.1	16.7	278.2	23.6	340.1	7.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	277.8	6.3	268.1	7.3	327.7	24.9	317.7	40.9	285.3	13.6
	Medium metropolitan	303.8	6.7	281.7	8.7	392.4	28.9	294.5	41.2	331.1	12.5
	Small metropolitan	292.9	10.0	272.5	11.1	401.6	47.5	388.5	53.1	338.7	27.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	276.4	8.4	263.1	9.8	345.8	46.8	207.0	40.6	316.0	22.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	273.3	10.6	267.6	11.7	252.2	52.7	*	*	264.5	34.3
Expected payment source	Private insurance	276.9	3.9	262.6	4.5	339.7	17.6	267.7	21.3	305.6	8.8
	Medicare	285.3	61.6	270.2	70.5	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Medicaid	328.5	5.2	291.3	8.1	396.2	15.8	332.6	34.5	345.1	7.8
	Other insurance	297.8	15.3	287.1	20.9	390.7	58.7	*	*	288.7	26.5
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	343.5	11.4	340.1	18.2	263.2	38.3	344.6	58.8	341.8	16.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	265.0	5.8	251.1	6.9	322.4	21.8	293.8	36.0	280.4	12.5
	Midwest	303.4	7.5	286.0	8.2	436.5	25.1	399.1	65.8	332.9	31.1
	South	305.6	5.8	276.5	7.0	359.8	17.2	286.7	42.7	335.7	10.1
	West	310.8	5.9	274.4	8.4	344.6	31.0	272.1	23.7	336.2	7.9
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	297.6	3.7	272.4	4.3	386.9	12.9	290.7	19.2	323.7	6.9
	Private, for profit	288.5	8.7	264.8	11.8	226.1	33.0	314.7	56.6	315.3	13.1
	Public	313.5	9.0	283.3	11.9	326.1	31.5	266.9	56.0	361.5	14.5
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	318.6	5.6	294.3	7.6	363.3	15.8	321.9	29.1	339.6	9.0
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	287.8	3.8	263.5	4.5	366.7	17.3	265.8	22.9	321.7	7.2
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	319.4	5.2	285.9	7.0	375.9	15.4	284.7	22.6	338.6	7.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	264.4	7.0	251.3	8.4	311.6	28.7	276.4	45.3	280.6	15.1
	Medium metropolitan	309.6	7.0	291.8	9.4	388.6	27.3	288.0	39.7	332.5	12.4
	Small metropolitan	302.7	10.0	283.1	10.8	429.8	41.7	399.4	55.2	337.9	27.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	265.7	8.5	254.0	9.5	333.0	46.2	243.8	59.8	296.0	22.3
	Noncore (nonmetro)	230.0	13.6	224.9	14.7	*	*	*	*	234.6	53.6
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	258.5	7.4	243.3	8.3	229.9	36.8	223.0	57.8	302.9	17.8
	100–299	294.1	4.6	268.1	5.5	380.9	18.2	268.5	22.4	326.9	8.1
	300–499	299.5	6.7	267.6	8.1	329.3	21.9	353.1	41.9	333.1	11.3
	500 or more	337.5	8.6	320.0	11.5	403.1	21.6	344.6	44.4	332.2	12.9

^a Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population.

* - 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_6_5-1: 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_6_5-1.html