Table 4_3_5-2

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 4_3_5.2
Deaths per 1,000 adult hospital admissions with congestive heart failure as principal diagnosis (excluding obstetric and neonatal hospital admissions and transfers to another hospital), 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		36.8	0.2	38.9	0.2	28.1	0.5	36.8	1.3	32.2	0.7
Age	18–44	13.2	0.5	14.7	0.9	11.7	0.7	14.0	4.1	14.0	1.7
	45–64	18.2	0.3	21.3	0.4	13.9	0.5	20.4	2.1	16.7	0.9
	65 and over	44.0	0.2	47.4	0.3	29.1	0.6	42.1	1.6	35.3	0.8
Age	65–69	24.7	0.5	27.7	0.6	17.9	1.0	30.3	3.6	20.2	1.6
	70–74	32.0	0.5	34.7	0.6	22.2	1.2	30.5	3.7	28.9	1.6
	75–79	37.9	0.5	40.3	0.5	30.2	1.3	25.1	3.6	32.6	1.6
	80–84	45.3	0.5	47.1	0.5	35.3	1.5	47.9	3.8	37.3	1.9
	85 and over	61.5	0.5	63.5	0.5	43.9	1.6	65.1	3.5	55.8	2.0
Gender	Male	36.7	0.3	42.5	0.3	19.8	0.5	35.0	1.9	29.5	0.8
Gender	Female	37.0	0.2	42.7	0.3	21.3	0.5	36.2	1.8	27.8	0.8
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	37.2	0.3	42.4	0.4	28.6	0.6	28.4	3.2	31.4	0.9
	Second quartile	37.8	0.4	39.6	0.4	27.2	1.0	40.0	3.0	33.2	1.4
	Third quartile	35.5	0.4	36.4	0.4	27.8	1.2	41.1	2.5	33.1	1.5
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	36.5	0.4	37.4	0.4	27.6	1.6	35.7	2.3	32.6	2.0
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	33.7	0.3	36.8	0.4	26.0	0.6	31.9	1.8	33.4	0.8
	Large fringe metropolitan	33.9	0.3	34.8	0.4	29.0	1.1	36.3	3.4	27.0	1.8
	Medium metropolitan	37.4	0.4	39.0	0.5	30.4	1.2	43.0	3.1	31.6	1.6
	Small metropolitan	39.7	0.6	41.0	0.7	32.3	1.8	37.6	8.6	32.5	3.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	42.4	0.5	43.6	0.6	31.1	1.9	57.5	4.7	30.7	2.8
	Noncore (nonmetro)	47.1	0.6	49.1	0.7	32.3	2.3	*	*	38.5	4.4
Expected payment source	Private insurance	42.7	0.6	46.9	0.7	30.1	1.4	39.0	4.7	40.3	2.3
	Medicare	35.7	0.2	37.5	0.2	27.6	0.5	36.3	1.5	30.8	0.8
	Medicaid	36.2	0.9	45.3	1.6	28.8	1.5	35.7	4.0	33.6	1.8
	Other insurance	65.7	1.8	76.8	2.1	27.6	4.6	62.5	15.2	48.0	6.2
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	48.1	1.5	65.8	2.2	30.6	2.7	47.1	10.7	34.4	3.5
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	41.7	0.4	43.5	0.4	32.9	1.2	43.1	3.9	32.4	1.6
	Midwest	34.5	0.4	36.8	0.4	22.6	0.9	44.6	7.4	24.7	4.3
	South	36.3	0.3	38.4	0.3	30.0	0.7	33.3	3.2	31.8	0.9
	West	35.1	0.4	36.8	0.5	26.5	1.4	36.3	1.6	33.3	1.1
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	36.0	0.2	38.0	0.2	27.1	0.5	36.7	1.5	31.4	0.8
	Private, for profit	36.8	0.4	38.5	0.5	31.4	1.2	32.9	3.6	33.1	1.2
	Public	43.3	0.6	47.3	0.7	30.7	1.4	42.8	4.2	35.3	2.2
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	33.4	0.3	35.7	0.4	26.9	0.7	39.2	2.8	29.8	1.3
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	38.0	0.2	39.9	0.2	28.9	0.6	36.2	1.5	33.1	0.8
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	33.7	0.3	36.3	0.4	26.3	0.6	33.0	1.7	33.3	0.8
	Large fringe metropolitan	33.4	0.4	34.5	0.4	28.2	1.0	27.1	4.0	27.0	1.9
	Medium metropolitan	37.3	0.4	38.8	0.4	30.6	1.2	43.6	3.1	32.3	1.5
	Small metropolitan	40.8	0.6	42.5	0.6	31.1	1.7	45.9	9.7	27.7	3.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	43.8	0.6	45.2	0.6	31.1	2.0	60.5	4.8	30.3	3.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	54.4	0.9	55.7	0.9	36.3	3.4	*	*	68.8	9.4
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	46.7	0.5	48.1	0.5	34.7	1.8	40.7	4.7	40.1	2.4
	100–299	36.2	0.3	37.9	0.3	28.0	0.8	35.9	1.7	32.2	1.0
	300–499	34.6	0.3	36.7	0.4	27.9	0.8	33.5	2.9	32.1	1.2
	500 or more	34.6	0.4	37.1	0.5	26.9	0.9	45.0	3.9	29.7	1.4

^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.

* - 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 4_3_5-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/4_heartdiseases/T4_3_5-2.html