Table 8_2_7-1

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 8_2_7.1
Deaths per 1,000 adult hospital admissions with pneumonia as principal diagnosis (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		49.0	0.2	74.0	0.2
Age	18–44	12.4	0.4	20.0	0.4
	45–64	27.4	0.3	42.3	0.4
	65 and over	62.3	0.3	93.1	0.3
Age	65–69	39.0	0.6	60.2	0.7
	70–74	44.3	0.6	72.2	0.6
	75–79	52.9	0.6	83.4	0.6
	80–84	65.9	0.6	95.6	0.7
	85 and over	85.4	0.6	123.9	0.6
Gender	Male	52.5	0.3	79.3	0.3
Gender	Female	46.7	0.3	70.2	0.3
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	51.0	0.4	71.7	0.4
	Second quartile	50.3	0.4	73.3	0.4
	Third quartile	46.7	0.4	74.6	0.5
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	47.3	0.5	77.6	0.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	44.2	0.4	69.4	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	46.2	0.4	76.2	0.5
	Medium metropolitan	48.1	0.5	74.7	0.6
	Small metropolitan	50.2	0.7	80.8	0.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	57.3	0.6	77.1	0.7
	Noncore (nonmetro)	58.7	0.7	72.1	0.7
Expected payment source	Private insurance	54.2	0.7	75.8	0.7
	Medicare	48.3	0.2	73.6	0.2
	Medicaid	46.3	1.0	72.2	1.0
	Other insurance	68.8	2.1	79.0	2.3
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	54.5	1.8	83.5	1.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	56.0	0.5	77.3	0.5
	Midwest	44.6	0.4	71.3	0.5
	South	48.7	0.3	75.3	0.4
	West	47.8	0.5	70.2	0.5
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	48.0	0.2	74.4	0.3
	Private, for profit	48.5	0.6	69.7	0.6
	Public	55.5	0.6	76.1	0.6
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	45.3	0.4	73.4	0.4
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	50.2	0.2	74.1	0.3
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	43.5	0.4	69.2	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	46.7	0.5	76.4	0.5
	Medium metropolitan	48.4	0.5	75.0	0.5
	Small metropolitan	50.1	0.7	80.5	0.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	58.7	0.6	77.6	0.7
	Noncore (nonmetro)	63.0	0.8	70.9	0.8
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	59.4	0.5	74.5	0.5
	100–299	49.1	0.3	73.2	0.3
	300–499	43.3	0.4	75.5	0.4
	500 or more	44.8	0.5	72.8	0.6

^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.

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 8_2_7-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_7-1.html