Table 4_4_1-1

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_4_1.1
Deaths per 1,000 adult hospital admissions with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair (excluding obstetric and neonatal admissions and transfers to another hospital), United States, 2000 and 2005
Population group		2005		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		68.3	1.2	83.7	1.0
Age	18–44	*	*	*	*
	45–64	25.9	1.8	33.9	1.7
	65 and over	81.2	1.4	93.8	1.2
Age	65–69	50.0	2.3	53.6	2.1
	70–74	55.7	2.5	80.2	2.1
	75–79	94.5	2.9	106.2	2.6
	80–84	96.7	3.3	117.7	3.3
	85 and over	152.2	6.3	187.9	5.5
Gender	Male	63.2	1.3	74.2	1.1
Gender	Female	101.9	2.9	114.5	2.6
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	64.5	2.4	89.9	2.2
	Second quartile	72.5	2.4	82.4	1.9
	Third quartile	69.1	2.2	84.1	2.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	66.9	2.4	79.2	2.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	71.5	2.3	85.3	2.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	62.6	2.3	82.3	2.0
	Medium metropolitan	81.3	2.6	85.4	2.3
	Small metropolitan	56.6	3.8	79.1	3.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	66.3	3.6	89.3	3.3
	Noncore (nonmetro)	59.8	4.2	77.2	3.8
Expected payment source	Private insurance	43.7	3.1	73.6	2.7
	Medicare	72.5	1.3	85.6	1.2
	Medicaid	96.9	9.5	56.4	10.3
	Other insurance	58.4	11.0	71.8	11.9
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	57.8	9.8	107.2	7.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	77.3	2.4	84.4	2.2
	Midwest	66.5	2.3	78.5	2.1
	South	67.1	2.0	82.1	1.7
	West	61.5	2.8	95.4	2.7
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	66.6	1.3	82.1	1.2
	Private, for profit	63.0	3.5	96.1	3.3
	Public	87.4	3.7	84.2	3.4
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	63.4	1.9	76.6	1.9
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	71.5	1.5	87.0	1.3
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	67.0	1.9	81.2	1.9
	Large fringe metropolitan	62.4	2.6	84.4	2.2
	Medium metropolitan	70.8	2.3	80.8	2.0
	Small metropolitan	65.6	3.5	80.9	2.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	87.3	4.8	119.6	4.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	249.3	38.3	101.7	18.0
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	94.6	7.6	106.9	5.3
	100–299	73.3	2.0	92.7	1.7
	300–499	65.5	2.0	79.3	1.8
	500 or more	63.8	2.2	73.1	2.1

^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: 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_4_1-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/4_heartdiseases/T4_4_1-1.html