Table 12_2_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_2_5.2a
Postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (DVT) per 1,000 surgical discharges (excluding patients admitted for DVT, obstetrics, and plication of vena cava before or after surgery),^a age 18 and over, 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		11.3	0.0	10.5	0.0	15.9	0.1	9.8	0.2	12.0	0.1
Age	18–44	7.5	0.1	6.8	0.1	10.4	0.1	6.3	0.4	7.0	0.2
	45–64	10.4	0.1	9.6	0.1	14.2	0.1	7.9	0.4	11.0	0.2
	65 and over	14.1	0.1	13.4	0.1	19.5	0.2	13.2	0.4	15.6	0.2
	65–69	12.1	0.1	11.1	0.1	17.5	0.3	10.7	0.8	14.6	0.4
	70–74	13.3	0.1	12.4	0.1	19.6	0.4	14.1	0.9	13.8	0.5
	75–79	14.7	0.1	14.2	0.1	19.3	0.4	13.3	0.9	16.0	0.5
	80–84	16.1	0.1	15.5	0.2	21.4	0.5	15.8	1.1	18.0	0.7
	85 and over	15.8	0.2	15.0	0.2	22.5	0.6	12.5	1.3	18.7	0.8
Gender	Male	12.2	0.0	11.7	0.1	15.8	0.1	9.8	0.4	11.2	0.2
Gender	Female	10.7	0.0	10.1	0.1	13.6	0.1	9.3	0.3	10.5	0.1
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	11.8	0.1	10.1	0.1	15.8	0.1	10.5	0.7	11.6	0.2
	Second quartile	10.9	0.1	10.1	0.1	16.7	0.2	7.9	0.5	11.5	0.3
	Third quartile	11.0	0.1	10.4	0.1	15.5	0.2	11.3	0.5	13.1	0.3
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	11.4	0.1	11.1	0.1	15.0	0.3	9.5	0.4	12.1	0.3
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	13.5	0.1	12.3	0.1	17.1	0.1	10.2	0.3	13.7	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	11.4	0.1	10.7	0.1	16.3	0.2	10.9	0.6	12.6	0.3
	Medium metropolitan	10.2	0.1	9.9	0.1	13.7	0.2	7.5	0.6	9.1	0.3
	Small metropolitan	9.7	0.1	9.3	0.1	13.7	0.4	9.6	1.7	10.5	0.5
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	9.3	0.1	9.1	0.1	12.1	0.4	7.6	1.1	9.1	0.5
	Noncore (nonmetro)	9.7	0.1	9.4	0.1	13.7	0.5	11.0	2.9	9.5	0.7
Expected payment source	Private insurance	10.5	0.1	9.9	0.1	14.7	0.2	8.5	0.4	10.6	0.2
	Medicare	11.4	0.0	10.5	0.0	16.6	0.1	10.0	0.4	12.7	0.2
	Medicaid	14.9	0.1	13.9	0.2	17.3	0.2	11.4	0.7	15.1	0.3
	Other insurance	10.6	0.2	10.4	0.2	13.7	0.5	10.3	1.4	8.7	0.5
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	9.7	0.2	9.4	0.2	11.6	0.4	11.0	1.3	8.5	0.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	12.0	0.1	11.3	0.1	15.3	0.2	11.9	0.6	13.3	0.3
	Midwest	11.1	0.1	10.2	0.1	17.1	0.2	11.0	1.1	8.7	0.6
	South	10.7	0.1	9.6	0.1	15.1	0.1	9.0	0.6	11.0	0.2
	West	12.0	0.1	11.7	0.1	17.1	0.3	9.3	0.3	12.6	0.2
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	11.3	0.0	10.5	0.0	15.9	0.1	9.6	0.3	12.3	0.2
	Private, for profit	10.5	0.1	9.6	0.1	16.0	0.3	7.2	0.7	10.2	0.3
	Public	11.9	0.1	10.9	0.1	15.4	0.2	12.3	0.6	12.7	0.3
Teaching status	Teaching	13.6	0.1	12.8	0.1	17.0	0.1	12.7	0.4	13.9	0.2
Teaching status	Nonteaching	9.9	0.0	9.2	0.0	14.8	0.1	7.7	0.3	10.6	0.2
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	13.5	0.1	12.5	0.1	17.7	0.1	10.7	0.3	13.8	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.9	0.1	10.1	0.1	15.1	0.2	9.8	0.7	12.2	0.4
	Medium metropolitan	10.2	0.1	10.0	0.1	13.6	0.2	6.9	0.6	8.7	0.2
	Small metropolitan	9.3	0.1	8.8	0.1	13.8	0.4	11.9	1.8	9.6	0.5
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	7.5	0.1	7.4	0.1	9.5	0.5	5.8	1.2	8.2	0.7
	Noncore (nonmetro)	5.6	0.3	5.5	0.3	7.5	1.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	7.1	0.1	6.9	0.1	9.6	0.5	DSU	DSU	7.9	0.5
	100–299	9.7	0.1	9.2	0.1	13.6	0.2	8.1	0.4	10.1	0.2
	300–499	11.5	0.1	10.7	0.1	16.0	0.2	10.3	0.5	11.8	0.2
	500 or more	14.1	0.1	13.0	0.1	18.4	0.2	14.1	0.5	14.9	0.2

^a Also excludes admissions specifically for such thromboemboli, such as cases from earlier admissions, from other hospitals, or from other settings.

^b 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_2_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_2_5-2a.html