Table 8_1_3-2

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 8_1_3.2
Immunization-preventable influenza admissions (excluding transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 65 and over, 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		90.3	2.8	96.5	3.1	62.0	4.7	40.2	6.8	51.7	4.7
Age	65–69	37.6	1.4	39.8	1.7	33.0	3.5	19.0	4.8	24.0	3.7
	70–74	64.3	2.4	67.4	2.7	61.4	6.3	30.7	7.5	42.4	5.2
	75–79	89.4	3.2	95.3	3.6	59.1	6.6	40.8	9.1	59.7	8.8
	80–84	146.0	5.1	156.9	5.8	82.2	9.6	52.8	13.1	81.1	10.2
	85 and over	207.3	7.9	225.4	8.9	101.1	9.9	98.3	20.2	85.5	10.7
Gender	Male	97.0	3.3	106.2	3.7	51.1	4.8	35.6	6.3	48.3	5.2
Gender	Female	87.1	2.7	91.6	3.1	67.8	5.3	44.7	8.6	54.1	5.3
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	101.4	4.4	114.4	5.4	70.1	7.0	47.7	11.0	64.4	9.3
	Second quartile	86.1	3.8	91.7	4.2	47.6	5.4	43.7	11.5	45.3	6.7
	Third quartile	91.0	4.7	96.1	5.2	57.5	7.0	42.2	9.8	39.3	5.6
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	82.5	5.9	86.4	6.3	57.7	9.5	34.6	9.7	45.8	6.9
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	61.0	5.0	64.3	5.9	56.0	8.1	35.9	8.1	47.4	6.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	85.5	7.1	89.3	7.7	55.6	7.9	30.8	8.9	43.0	7.7
	Medium metropolitan	85.1	8.3	89.0	9.0	58.9	10.6	*	*	57.7	10.2
	Small metropolitan	97.9	10.5	100.7	11.0	72.5	14.7	*	*	71.9	19.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	122.3	7.7	127.9	8.4	74.3	11.6	*	*	*	*
	Noncore (nonmetro)	154.6	9.4	159.4	9.8	106.9	17.6	*	*	*	*
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	73.8	6.5	76.8	6.8	48.8	8.0	*	*	55.2	16.3
	Midwest	143.8	7.6	149.4	8.2	81.0	11.4	61.9	17.2	57.8	12.9
	South	90.7	4.1	96.9	4.6	62.6	7.0	*	*	62.2	8.9
	West	44.1	4.0	44.7	4.7	47.6	9.0	40.1	9.2	39.4	4.7

^a 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.

* - 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 8_1_3-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_1_3-2.html