Table 12_2_10-3a

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_2_10.3a
Foreign body accidentally left in during procedure per 1,000 medical and surgical discharges,^a age 18 and over or obstetric admissions, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2006
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		0.09	0.00	0.09	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.02	0.07	0.01
Age	18–44	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	45–64	0.11	0.01	0.12	0.01	0.09	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.10	0.02
	65 and over	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	65–69	0.12	0.01	0.14	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	70–74	0.12	0.01	0.12	0.01	0.16	0.04	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	75–79	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	80–84	0.06	0.01	0.06	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	85 and over	0.04	0.01	0.05	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.07	0.01
Gender	Female	0.08	0.00	0.09	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.02	0.07	0.01
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	Second quartile	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.07	0.01
	Third quartile	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.08	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.07	0.02
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	0.09	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.09	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.10	0.02
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.09	0.03	0.06	0.01
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.09	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.10	0.02
	Medium metropolitan	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.11	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.07	0.02
	Small metropolitan	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetro)	0.10	0.01	0.11	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Expected payment source	Private insurance	0.11	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.10	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.11	0.02
	Medicare	0.09	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.08	0.02
	Medicaid	0.06	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.04	0.01
	Other insurance	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.08	0.03	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.05	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.07	0.02
	Midwest	0.10	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.11	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	South	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.08	0.01
	West	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.08	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	0.09	0.00	0.10	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.02	0.09	0.01
	Private, for profit	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.07	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.05	0.01
	Public	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.06	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.04	0.01
Teaching status	Teaching	0.10	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.01
Teaching status	Nonteaching	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.02	0.06	0.01
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	0.09	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.10	0.03	0.07	0.01
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.02
	Medium metropolitan	0.10	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.10	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	Small metropolitan	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.11	0.03	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetro)	0.05	0.01	0.05	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	0.06	0.01	0.06	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	100–299	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.05	0.01
	300–499	0.09	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.09	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.02
	500 or more	0.11	0.01	0.13	0.01	0.06	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.07	0.01

^a Excludes admissions specifically for treatment of foreign body left, such as cases from earlier admissions or from other hospitals.

^b Rates are observed rates and are not adjusted for age, gender, or severity.

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_2_10-3a: 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_2_10-3a.html