Table 8_2_7-2

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_2_7.2
Deaths per 1,000 adult hospital admissions with pneumonia as principal diagnosis (excluding obstetric and neonatal admissions and transfers to another hospital), 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		49.8	0.2	50.9	0.2	44.5	0.6	54.1	1.3	43.9	0.8
Age	18–44	13.4	0.4	13.2	0.5	12.6	0.7	17.4	3.0	15.0	1.1
	45–64	27.7	0.3	28.4	0.4	24.8	0.7	33.4	2.5	28.5	1.2
	65 and over	63.2	0.3	65.2	0.3	51.9	0.9	67.4	1.8	50.9	1.1
Age	65–69	39.7	0.7	41.6	0.8	33.9	1.7	40.9	4.2	32.5	2.4
	70–74	45.5	0.6	46.8	0.7	39.8	1.8	41.1	4.1	40.8	2.3
	75–79	54.5	0.6	56.0	0.7	47.2	2.0	67.2	3.8	43.6	2.3
	80–84	65.0	0.6	66.4	0.7	56.1	2.2	64.7	4.0	56.5	2.6
	85 and over	87.0	0.6	88.6	0.7	77.2	2.1	96.3	3.8	70.9	2.5
Gender	Male	53.0	0.3	56.1	0.4	37.1	0.7	66.0	2.1	42.2	1.1
Gender	Female	47.5	0.3	51.4	0.3	30.6	0.6	48.2	2.0	36.2	1.0
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	51.6	0.4	54.5	0.5	46.6	0.9	47.9	2.9	43.5	1.2
	Second quartile	50.4	0.4	51.5	0.5	43.1	1.4	52.7	2.9	45.1	1.7
	Third quartile	48.4	0.4	49.1	0.5	41.0	1.7	61.7	2.6	41.5	1.9
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	47.9	0.5	48.1	0.5	40.4	2.1	53.2	2.5	47.4	2.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	46.7	0.4	48.5	0.5	43.5	0.9	47.7	1.7	42.3	1.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	46.2	0.4	46.6	0.5	41.3	1.6	43.1	4.4	47.6	2.4
	Medium metropolitan	49.0	0.5	49.4	0.5	42.1	1.7	64.2	3.1	47.0	2.0
	Small metropolitan	51.4	0.7	52.0	0.8	46.9	2.7	71.6	11.5	40.0	4.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	57.2	0.6	57.2	0.6	58.0	2.5	85.7	5.2	48.1	3.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	58.6	0.7	59.4	0.7	50.5	3.0	138.9	15.5	40.2	5.0
Expected payment source	Private insurance	53.0	0.7	53.7	0.8	49.0	2.1	61.0	4.9	50.7	2.8
	Medicare	49.0	0.2	50.1	0.3	42.9	0.7	53.8	1.5	42.0	0.9
	Medicaid	49.8	1.0	53.6	1.5	47.8	1.9	47.8	4.0	45.0	2.2
	Other insurance	68.7	2.0	72.8	2.4	48.3	5.8	126.3	16.2	54.0	7.1
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	60.6	1.8	63.2	2.3	54.7	3.9	40.5	11.4	58.4	4.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	56.3	0.5	57.0	0.5	52.0	1.5	65.5	3.5	50.4	1.9
	Midwest	45.5	0.4	46.9	0.5	34.4	1.3	64.2	7.2	46.1	6.6
	South	50.0	0.3	51.2	0.4	47.6	1.0	49.3	3.7	43.0	1.2
	West	47.3	0.5	48.2	0.6	42.3	1.8	52.3	1.6	42.0	1.3
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	48.5	0.2	49.7	0.3	41.8	0.8	53.1	1.6	41.3	1.0
	Private, for profit	49.4	0.5	50.2	0.6	50.9	1.7	41.4	3.2	45.6	1.6
	Public	58.4	0.6	59.2	0.7	51.7	1.8	84.8	4.5	54.4	2.4
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	47.7	0.4	48.7	0.5	43.9	1.0	54.6	2.6	44.9	1.6
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	50.4	0.2	51.4	0.3	44.8	0.8	54.0	1.6	43.6	0.9
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	47.2	0.4	49.0	0.5	44.2	0.9	47.3	1.7	42.6	1.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	45.3	0.5	45.6	0.5	40.2	1.5	44.0	4.9	47.6	2.5
	Medium metropolitan	49.1	0.5	49.5	0.5	41.7	1.7	64.0	3.1	47.3	2.0
	Small metropolitan	50.7	0.7	51.1	0.7	48.0	2.5	85.2	11.1	38.0	4.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	58.6	0.6	58.7	0.6	57.4	2.5	87.5	5.3	48.1	3.4
	Noncore (nonmetro)	60.9	0.9	61.6	0.9	50.2	3.6	141.8	18.5	30.4	7.5
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	57.9	0.5	58.3	0.5	52.6	2.1	65.8	4.1	53.6	2.4
	100–299	49.7	0.3	50.6	0.4	44.9	1.1	55.8	1.8	43.0	1.2
	300–499	45.6	0.4	46.5	0.5	42.6	1.1	49.2	3.0	41.4	1.6
	500 or more	46.8	0.5	48.1	0.6	43.3	1.3	44.4	3.8	43.8	1.9

^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: 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_2_7-2: 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_2_7-2.html