Table 8_1_3-2
2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
| Population group | Total | Non-Hispanic | Hispanic, all races | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | API | |||||||||
| Ratea | SE | Ratea | SE | Ratea | SE | Ratea | SE | Ratea | 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 |
| 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.
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