Table 4_4_2-1

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_2.1
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions age 40 and over with coronary artery bypass graft (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		26.7	0.3	41.9	0.3
Age	40–44	9.5	1.5	11.1	1.4
	45–64	12.7	0.3	21.1	0.3
	65 and over	37.1	0.5	56.6	0.4
Age	65–69	20.5	0.7	36.3	0.7
	70–74	30.9	0.8	48.6	0.8
	75–79	44.9	1.0	65.0	1.0
	80–84	57.4	1.5	93.1	1.6
	85 and over	72.9	3.1	106.7	3.3
Gender	Male	21.5	0.3	33.7	0.3
Gender	Female	40.0	0.7	59.3	0.6
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	28.6	0.6	42.3	0.6
	Second quartile	25.2	0.6	43.9	0.5
	Third quartile	27.7	0.6	42.2	0.6
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	24.7	0.6	38.3	0.6
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	26.6	0.6	43.0	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	23.5	0.6	38.1	0.6
	Medium metropolitan	28.0	0.6	39.1	0.7
	Small metropolitan	27.6	1.0	54.3	1.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	29.6	1.0	42.5	0.9
	Noncore (nonmetro)	27.6	1.0	40.9	1.0
Expected payment source	Private insurance	24.2	0.7	37.0	0.6
	Medicare	26.9	0.3	43.0	0.3
	Medicaid	30.3	1.6	47.8	1.7
	Other insurance	26.8	2.5	43.3	2.6
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	31.1	2.3	42.7	2.3
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	24.2	0.7	39.8	0.6
	Midwest	25.6	0.6	41.7	0.6
	South	28.6	0.5	43.3	0.5
	West	26.3	0.7	41.0	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	25.8	0.3	41.0	0.3
	Private, for profit	29.2	0.8	45.7	1.1
	Public	30.9	1.1	48.0	1.1
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	25.5	0.5	41.6	0.4
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	27.6	0.4	42.0	0.4
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	26.7	0.4	43.1	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	20.7	0.8	36.3	0.7
	Medium metropolitan	28.8	0.6	40.8	0.6
	Small metropolitan	26.4	1.0	50.4	0.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	38.3	2.2	27.8	3.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	*	*	494.2	59.8
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	30.4	3.8	36.9	4.6
	100–299	28.0	0.6	41.4	0.6
	300–499	24.9	0.5	42.9	0.5
	500 or more	27.3	0.5	40.9	0.5

^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_2-1: 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_2-1.html