Table 12_1_5-2a

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_5.2a
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, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2006
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		15.6	0.1	14.8	0.1	18.2	0.4	21.8	1.0	19.3	0.5
Age	18–44	12.6	0.3	11.6	0.3	15.4	0.6	11.5	2.0	13.7	0.8
	45–64	13.1	0.2	12.1	0.2	16.6	0.5	15.2	1.5	16.0	0.7
	65 and over	18.8	0.2	18.2	0.2	17.5	0.6	30.5	1.5	23.1	0.7
	65–69	16.0	0.3	15.4	0.4	16.2	1.1	26.1	2.7	17.2	1.3
	70–74	15.9	0.3	15.5	0.4	14.8	1.2	25.0	3.0	19.6	1.3
	75–79	21.0	0.4	20.4	0.4	19.9	1.3	32.2	3.2	26.3	1.6
	80–84	22.6	0.5	21.9	0.5	22.0	1.8	43.2	4.3	27.8	2.2
	85 and over	22.2	0.7	20.9	0.8	19.0	2.4	37.3	6.6	45.2	3.5
Gender	Male	17.6	0.2	17.0	0.2	18.2	0.6	25.0	1.6	19.7	0.7
Gender	Female	14.4	0.1	13.7	0.2	15.8	0.4	19.5	1.2	17.2	0.5
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	16.7	0.2	15.3	0.3	19.2	0.5	23.2	2.6	19.9	0.7
	Second quartile	15.6	0.2	14.9	0.3	18.3	0.8	23.5	2.2	17.6	1.0
	Third quartile	15.2	0.2	14.8	0.2	16.0	0.9	14.6	1.9	18.0	1.0
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	15.0	0.2	14.1	0.3	15.9	1.2	25.7	1.6	22.0	1.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	18.4	0.2	16.8	0.3	20.3	0.6	25.9	1.3	21.2	0.7
	Large fringe metropolitan	16.1	0.2	15.3	0.2	18.6	0.8	20.7	2.3	21.7	1.2
	Medium metropolitan	14.2	0.3	13.6	0.3	15.7	0.9	14.5	2.5	18.3	1.0
	Small metropolitan	15.4	0.4	15.4	0.4	16.4	1.4	DSU	DSU	15.3	1.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	13.4	0.3	13.3	0.3	13.8	1.2	20.2	4.4	12.8	1.4
	Noncore (nonmetro)	13.5	0.4	13.2	0.4	16.4	1.5	DSU	DSU	18.2	2.1
Expected payment source	Private insurance	14.2	0.2	13.1	0.2	18.2	0.7	19.7	1.7	19.4	0.9
	Medicare	16.0	0.1	15.3	0.2	18.3	0.5	24.2	1.4	19.6	0.6
	Medicaid	21.8	0.5	20.9	0.7	23.2	1.0	26.7	2.8	21.4	1.3
	Other insurance	12.8	0.7	13.8	0.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	13.0	2.0
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	13.4	0.8	13.5	1.0	11.7	1.9	DSU	DSU	17.7	2.1
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	14.4	0.3	13.2	0.3	16.0	0.9	21.7	2.6	22.0	1.0
	Midwest	14.9	0.2	14.8	0.2	17.2	0.8	14.9	3.7	13.6	2.3
	South	15.7	0.2	14.9	0.2	18.3	0.5	13.0	1.9	17.1	0.7
	West	18.3	0.3	16.6	0.3	24.4	1.3	26.8	1.4	21.6	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	15.1	0.1	14.4	0.1	17.2	0.4	22.9	1.2	17.7	0.6
	Private, for profit	19.1	0.3	17.5	0.3	21.1	0.8	25.6	2.4	24.9	0.8
	Public	14.2	0.3	13.5	0.4	18.9	1.0	12.8	2.6	15.2	1.2
Teaching status	Teaching	15.4	0.2	14.7	0.2	17.8	0.6	19.4	1.6	16.5	0.7
Teaching status	Nonteaching	15.8	0.1	14.8	0.2	18.4	0.5	23.2	1.2	21.0	0.6
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	18.0	0.2	16.7	0.2	20.2	0.5	24.3	1.2	21.6	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	15.8	0.3	15.1	0.3	18.0	0.8	18.8	2.8	18.1	1.4
	Medium metropolitan	14.0	0.2	13.3	0.3	16.1	0.8	17.6	2.5	17.6	0.9
	Small metropolitan	15.3	0.3	15.6	0.4	13.8	1.3	DSU	DSU	14.8	1.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	11.5	0.4	11.0	0.4	14.9	1.5	DSU	DSU	14.1	2.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	8.5	0.9	7.9	0.9	17.3	3.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	13.3	0.4	12.4	0.4	13.6	1.2	DSU	DSU	24.5	1.5
	100–299	15.9	0.2	14.2	0.2	22.9	0.6	26.9	1.4	19.8	0.7
	300–499	16.0	0.2	15.7	0.2	15.6	0.7	15.5	2.0	19.0	0.9
	500 or more	15.8	0.2	15.3	0.2	17.0	0.7	21.1	2.1	17.6	0.8

^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.

DSU - 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 (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, disparities analysis file, 2006, and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1. The analysis file is designed to provide national estimates on disparities using weighted records from a sample of hospitals from the following 25 States: AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, KS, MA, MD, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NY, OK, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, and WI.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_5-2a: 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_5-2a.html