Table 2_3_3-1

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 2_3_3.1
Admissions for diabetes with long-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		122.4	3.3	117.8	2.8
Age	18–44	38.5	1.4	34.4	1.2
	45–64	159.7	4.7	153.5	4.5
	65 and over	331.9	9.2	325.8	7.7
Age	65–69	274.4	8.3	274.0	7.6
	70–74	320.0	10.1	319.8	8.5
	75–79	364.2	10.9	361.4	9.9
	80–84	410.5	13.0	393.0	11.4
	85 and over	343.6	12.6	336.5	11.2
Gender	Male	139.3	3.8	133.7	3.2
Gender	Female	108.6	3.0	104.7	2.8
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	179.3	8.0	193.9	9.3
	Second quartile	126.8	5.4	129.5	5.1
	Third quartile	104.9	4.6	99.0	4.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	86.0	5.3	72.6	4.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	146.3	10.8	140.7	10.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	112.0	8.7	112.5	8.2
	Medium metropolitan	121.7	12.0	95.4	10.7
	Small metropolitan	94.2	12.4	103.9	11.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	117.0	7.0	114.9	7.5
	Noncore (nonmetro)	118.3	6.5	128.7	7.0
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	131.5	7.5	132.7	8.4
	Midwest	110.5	4.9	107.6	5.2
	South	140.9	6.7	130.2	4.5
	West	95.7	5.8	93.3	5.2

^a Renal, eye, neurological, circulatory, or other unspecified complications.

^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_3-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/2_diabetes/T2_3_3-1.html