Table 8_3_2-2

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_3_2.2
Asthma admissions (excluding patients with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system, obstetric admissions, and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2005
Population group		2005		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		127.3	3.8	112.3	3.3
Age	18–44	75.4	2.7	91.4	3.0
	45–64	157.0	5.1	127.1	4.1
	65 and over	235.5	7.6	151.9	5.0
Age	65–69	195.2	7.0	129.9	5.3
	70–74	219.5	7.9	148.7	5.2
	75–79	246.6	8.7	158.5	6.1
	80–84	294.3	10.7	177.6	7.9
	85 and over	270.7	12.4	180.2	7.9
Gender	Male	74.2	2.5	63.3	2.2
Gender	Female	175.1	5.1	158.1	4.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	190.0	10.2	191.2	11.5
	Second quartile	131.4	5.9	120.0	5.3
	Third quartile	109.2	5.0	95.1	4.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	87.4	5.6	69.8	4.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	150.4	11.8	144.6	12.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	121.7	10.6	109.7	8.6
	Medium metropolitan	116.9	11.5	79.1	9.1
	Small metropolitan	96.7	12.3	89.2	10.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	127.8	8.2	107.2	9.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	130.4	9.3	117.3	8.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	149.4	11.0	149.3	11.7
	Midwest	124.2	6.0	104.6	6.4
	South	141.6	7.2	113.4	4.2
	West	88.4	5.0	85.6	4.9

^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.

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_3_2-2: 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_3_2-2.html