Table 12_1_5-1

2009 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 12_1_5.1
Postoperative sepsis per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges with an operating room procedure (excluding patients admitted for infection; patients with cancer or immunocompromised states; obstetric conditions; stays under 4 days; and admissions specifically for sepsis), age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		15.1	0.1	9.6	0.1
Age	18–44	11.0	0.3	6.7	0.2
	45–64	13.1	0.2	8.6	0.2
	65 and over	18.0	0.2	11.3	0.2
	65–69	15.9	0.3	8.8	0.3
	70–74	15.1	0.3	9.7	0.3
	75–79	19.4	0.3	12.1	0.3
	80–84	21.8	0.5	15.0	0.5
	85 and over	22.7	0.7	15.5	0.6
Gender	Male	17.2	0.2	11.7	0.2
Gender	Female	13.6	0.1	8.0	0.1
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	16.0	0.2	10.4	0.2
	Second quartile	15.8	0.2	9.7	0.2
	Third quartile	14.5	0.2	9.9	0.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	13.7	0.2	8.2	0.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	17.8	0.2	9.7	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	14.3	0.2	10.4	0.2
	Medium metropolitan	13.9	0.2	8.3	0.2
	Small metropolitan	16.1	0.3	9.8	0.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	14.0	0.3	8.2	0.3
	Noncore (nonmetro)	13.0	0.3	10.7	0.3
Expected payment source	Private insurance	13.8	0.2	8.8	0.2
	Medicare	15.5	0.1	9.9	0.1
	Medicaid	21.6	0.5	12.4	0.5
	Other insurance	11.8	0.6	8.5	0.6
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	11.5	0.8	6.9	0.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	15.1	0.3	9.2	0.2
	Midwest	12.9	0.2	9.3	0.2
	South	16.4	0.2	10.3	0.2
	West	15.1	0.3	8.6	0.2
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	14.8	0.1	9.4	0.1
	Private, for profit	17.2	0.3	9.6	0.3
	Public	13.9	0.3	10.6	0.3
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	14.9	0.2	9.4	0.2
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	15.2	0.1	9.6	0.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	16.8	0.2	9.8	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	13.1	0.3	10.6	0.2
	Medium metropolitan	14.7	0.2	8.5	0.2
	Small metropolitan	15.9	0.3	10.3	0.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	12.9	0.4	8.1	0.4
	Noncore (nonmetro)	7.0	0.9	7.7	0.7
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	12.0	0.3	7.9	0.4
	100–299	16.2	0.2	9.3	0.2
	300–499	15.1	0.2	10.2	0.2
	500 or more	15.0	0.2	9.7	0.2

^a Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, and diagnosis-related group (DRG) clusters. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, comorbidities, and DRG clusters; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, comorbidities, and DRG clusters.

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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_5-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/12_patientsafety/T12_1_5-1.html