Table 4_2_8-1

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 4_2_8.1
Deaths per 1,000 adult hospital admissions with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as principal diagnosis (excluding transfers to another hospital), United States, 2000 and 2005
Population group		2005		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		77.5	0.3	105.8	0.3
Age	18–44	16.8	0.7	21.1	0.7
	45–64	35.1	0.4	45.5	0.4
	65 and over	107.9	0.5	144.9	0.5
Age	65–69	58.1	0.9	88.6	0.9
	70–74	81.1	1.0	113.2	0.9
	75–79	102.2	1.1	140.6	1.0
	80–84	124.5	1.2	161.2	1.2
	85 and over	150.7	1.2	207.5	1.3
Gender	Male	67.1	0.4	92.1	0.4
Gender	Female	92.9	0.6	127.0	0.6
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	79.6	0.6	110.9	0.6
	Second quartile	80.2	0.7	106.3	0.6
	Third quartile	75.6	0.7	105.2	0.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	73.7	0.7	99.0	0.7
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	72.6	0.6	101.4	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	69.6	0.7	101.3	0.6
	Medium metropolitan	77.1	0.7	102.6	0.8
	Small metropolitan	80.9	1.2	117.1	1.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	90.6	1.0	113.9	1.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	96.8	1.2	118.0	1.1
Expected payment source	Private insurance	75.3	1.0	98.1	0.9
	Medicare	76.9	0.4	106.5	0.4
	Medicaid	79.9	1.8	103.2	1.8
	Other insurance	89.4	3.0	113.8	3.3
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	101.8	2.3	133.2	2.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	76.2	0.7	103.5	0.7
	Midwest	77.1	0.7	111.9	0.7
	South	77.1	0.5	104.1	0.5
	West	80.9	0.8	104.5	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	75.5	0.4	104.4	0.4
	Private, for profit	79.9	0.9	105.8	0.9
	Public	88.7	1.0	117.6	1.1
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	70.6	0.6	99.9	0.6
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	81.0	0.4	108.2	0.4
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	71.5	0.6	102.1	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	70.1	0.7	102.0	0.7
	Medium metropolitan	78.4	0.7	103.6	0.7
	Small metropolitan	84.1	1.1	113.1	1.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	98.2	1.1	117.1	1.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	122.3	2.3	131.2	1.9
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	101.1	1.2	119.6	1.0
	100–299	77.5	0.5	105.0	0.5
	300–499	76.7	0.6	105.4	0.6
	500 or more	70.3	0.7	100.4	0.8

^a Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, and All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender and APR-DRG risk of mortality score; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age and APR-DRG risk of mortality score.

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 4_2_8-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/4_heartdiseases/T4_2_8-1.html