Table 12_1_6-2

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_6.2
Selected infections due to medical care^a per 100,000 population (excluding immunocompromised and cancer patients and neonates), age 18 and over or obstetric admissions, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		29.8	1.0	24.5	0.8
Age	18–44	15.5	0.7	12.1	0.5
	45–64	32.7	1.2	26.5	1.0
	65 and over	71.6	2.7	61.7	2.2
	65–69	56.2	2.6	49.9	2.4
	70–74	69.1	3.2	58.3	2.7
	75–79	78.6	3.6	68.7	3.2
	80–84	92.7	4.5	76.8	4.0
	85 and over	75.5	3.9	68.5	3.9
Gender	Male	29.3	1.0	25.4	0.9
Gender	Female	30.6	1.1	24.1	0.8
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	35.5	1.8	30.7	1.7
	Second quartile	30.4	1.5	26.5	1.2
	Third quartile	27.5	1.3	24.5	1.3
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	27.1	1.7	19.2	1.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	33.6	2.6	28.9	2.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	30.1	2.4	27.7	2.3
	Medium metropolitan	30.3	3.1	20.2	2.4
	Small metropolitan	24.8	2.6	21.2	2.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	28.1	2.1	20.1	1.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	24.3	2.0	20.2	1.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	30.5	2.4	23.4	2.0
	Midwest	28.0	1.9	23.7	1.7
	South	33.3	1.9	26.7	1.3
	West	25.6	1.7	22.6	1.9

^a Includes admissions specifically for such infections, such as cases from earlier admissions, from other hospitals, or from other settings.

^b 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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_6-2: 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_6-2.html