Table 12_2_6-1

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_2_6.1
Postoperative respiratory failure per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges with an operating room procedure (excluding patients with respiratory disease, circulatory disease, neuromuscular disorders, obstetric conditions, and admissions specifically for acute respiratory failure), age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		10.4	0.0	10.2	0.1
Age	18–44	5.0	0.1	4.8	0.1
	45–64	9.6	0.1	9.3	0.1
	65 and over	15.3	0.1	15.2	0.1
	65–69	13.1	0.2	12.4	0.2
	70–74	13.5	0.2	13.2	0.2
	75–79	16.8	0.2	16.4	0.2
	80–84	17.8	0.3	19.7	0.3
	85 and over	20.3	0.4	19.3	0.4
Gender	Male	14.2	0.1	13.9	0.1
Gender	Female	8.7	0.1	8.1	0.1
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	11.2	0.1	11.0	0.1
	Second quartile	10.6	0.1	10.3	0.1
	Third quartile	10.3	0.1	10.3	0.1
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	9.4	0.1	9.3	0.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	10.5	0.1	10.8	0.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.5	0.1	10.4	0.1
	Medium metropolitan	10.9	0.1	9.8	0.1
	Small metropolitan	9.9	0.1	9.5	0.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	10.3	0.1	9.8	0.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	9.3	0.2	10.1	0.2
Expected payment source	Private insurance	9.3	0.1	9.5	0.1
	Medicare	10.5	0.1	10.2	0.1
	Medicaid	15.8	0.2	14.6	0.2
	Other insurance	10.7	0.3	9.0	0.3
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	11.6	0.3	13.2	0.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	11.2	0.1	9.8	0.1
	Midwest	9.6	0.1	9.6	0.1
	South	11.0	0.1	10.7	0.1
	West	9.6	0.1	10.5	0.1
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	10.1	0.1	9.7	0.1
	Private, for profit	11.1	0.1	11.7	0.2
	Public	11.5	0.1	12.6	0.2
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	10.5	0.1	10.6	0.1
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	10.3	0.1	10.0	0.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	10.7	0.1	10.6	0.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.1	0.1	10.6	0.1
	Medium metropolitan	11.3	0.1	9.7	0.1
	Small metropolitan	9.7	0.1	10.4	0.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	8.4	0.2	8.7	0.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	5.8	0.4	7.7	0.3
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	7.5	0.2	8.3	0.2
	100–299	9.9	0.1	10.2	0.1
	300–499	11.2	0.1	11.2	0.1
	500 or more	11.0	0.1	9.7	0.1

^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_2_6-1: 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_2_6-1.html