Table 2_3_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 2_3_2.2
Admissions for diabetes with short-term complications^a (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2005
Population group		2005		2000
Population group		Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		56.3	1.5	51.4	1.4
Age	18–44	65.4	2.0	55.7	1.8
	45–64	50.8	1.5	47.3	1.5
	65 and over	36.8	1.1	43.5	1.3
Age	65–69	36.6	1.7	37.4	1.8
	70–74	35.4	1.7	38.7	1.8
	75–79	37.2	2.0	45.3	2.1
	80–84	40.9	2.2	53.1	2.7
	85 and over	34.8	2.2	54.6	3.3
Gender	Male	58.7	1.8	53.6	1.8
Gender	Female	54.0	1.5	49.2	1.3
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	84.7	3.9	86.7	4.4
	Second quartile	61.8	2.8	59.1	2.5
	Third quartile	47.2	2.0	42.8	2.0
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	33.9	2.0	29.0	1.9
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	59.6	4.6	62.0	5.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	47.1	3.7	48.5	3.8
	Medium metropolitan	60.4	5.9	39.6	4.5
	Small metropolitan	52.4	6.5	49.4	6.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	65.9	3.9	48.7	3.5
	Noncore (nonmetro)	57.3	3.7	56.6	3.5
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	50.7	3.6	47.8	2.8
	Midwest	53.8	2.4	45.8	3.0
	South	68.1	3.0	61.8	2.7
	West	44.8	2.7	43.4	2.8

^a Ketoacidosis, hyperosmolarity, or coma.

^b 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.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 2_3_2-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/2_diabetes/T2_3_2-2.html