Table 12_2_6-3a

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_6.3a
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, 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		10.9	0.0	10.4	0.1	12.4	0.1	14.3	0.4	13.2	0.2
Age	18–44	5.4	0.1	4.9	0.1	6.1	0.2	8.8	0.5	6.1	0.2
	45–64	10.1	0.1	9.8	0.1	10.7	0.2	11.5	0.5	11.3	0.3
	65 and over	15.9	0.1	15.6	0.1	16.6	0.3	20.6	0.7	19.2	0.4
	65–69	13.9	0.2	13.5	0.2	16.2	0.5	17.6	1.2	14.7	0.6
	70–74	13.7	0.2	13.3	0.2	14.2	0.6	21.8	1.3	18.9	0.7
	75–79	17.3	0.2	17.1	0.2	17.9	0.7	16.2	1.6	19.7	0.9
	80–84	18.4	0.3	17.7	0.3	21.6	1.0	23.9	2.3	25.6	1.2
	85 and over	21.9	0.4	21.6	0.4	16.9	1.4	35.9	3.5	31.8	2.0
Gender	Male	15.0	0.1	14.6	0.1	15.4	0.3	18.6	0.7	17.5	0.3
Gender	Female	9.0	0.1	9.0	0.1	8.4	0.1	11.2	0.4	8.5	0.2
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	11.6	0.1	11.0	0.1	12.3	0.2	14.7	1.1	13.9	0.3
	Second quartile	11.3	0.1	10.9	0.1	12.7	0.3	15.5	0.9	13.3	0.4
	Third quartile	10.7	0.1	10.4	0.1	12.0	0.4	13.5	0.7	12.9	0.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	10.1	0.1	9.6	0.1	12.7	0.4	14.2	0.6	11.9	0.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	11.5	0.1	10.8	0.1	11.9	0.2	14.1	0.5	14.0	0.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	11.1	0.1	10.7	0.1	13.4	0.3	14.2	0.9	12.7	0.5
	Medium metropolitan	10.8	0.1	10.3	0.1	13.1	0.4	15.1	1.0	12.7	0.4
	Small metropolitan	10.3	0.2	9.9	0.2	12.9	0.6	17.9	2.4	13.2	0.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	10.2	0.1	10.0	0.1	11.1	0.6	10.6	1.6	11.9	0.7
	Noncore (nonmetro)	10.2	0.2	10.1	0.2	11.5	0.6	26.1	3.6	11.0	0.9
Expected payment source	Private insurance	10.1	0.1	9.7	0.1	12.1	0.3	13.3	0.6	12.0	0.3
	Medicare	10.9	0.1	10.6	0.1	11.5	0.2	15.0	0.5	13.3	0.3
	Medicaid	16.4	0.2	15.4	0.3	18.3	0.5	17.1	1.2	16.9	0.6
	Other insurance	10.8	0.3	10.1	0.3	11.9	0.8	DSU	DSU	13.2	0.9
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	10.9	0.3	10.7	0.4	11.0	0.9	13.2	2.2	11.7	1.0
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	10.6	0.1	10.1	0.1	13.2	0.4	12.7	0.9	12.8	0.4
	Midwest	10.6	0.1	10.4	0.1	12.4	0.3	14.8	1.6	8.0	0.9
	South	11.2	0.1	10.7	0.1	12.2	0.2	18.4	0.9	13.0	0.3
	West	11.1	0.1	10.2	0.1	12.0	0.5	13.6	0.5	14.3	0.3
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	10.5	0.1	10.1	0.1	12.2	0.2	13.5	0.5	11.4	0.2
	Private, for profit	11.5	0.1	10.9	0.1	12.5	0.4	13.6	1.0	14.2	0.4
	Public	12.9	0.1	12.0	0.2	13.1	0.4	18.5	0.9	18.3	0.5
Teaching status	Teaching	11.6	0.1	11.1	0.1	13.3	0.2	13.7	0.6	13.9	0.3
Teaching status	Nonteaching	10.5	0.1	10.1	0.1	11.6	0.2	14.9	0.5	12.7	0.2
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	11.8	0.1	11.3	0.1	12.7	0.2	14.4	0.5	14.1	0.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.9	0.1	10.7	0.1	11.6	0.3	13.1	1.0	12.4	0.6
	Medium metropolitan	10.7	0.1	10.2	0.1	13.7	0.4	15.6	1.0	11.9	0.4
	Small metropolitan	9.9	0.1	9.6	0.2	12.1	0.6	19.2	2.7	13.1	0.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	8.6	0.2	8.5	0.2	9.9	0.7	8.1	1.9	11.7	1.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	8.0	0.3	8.3	0.4	5.2	1.5	70.7	10.8	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	7.9	0.2	8.0	0.2	6.4	0.6	9.9	1.7	8.1	0.7
	100–299	10.7	0.1	10.1	0.1	12.5	0.3	13.6	0.5	14.0	0.3
	300–499	11.1	0.1	10.6	0.1	12.4	0.3	15.3	0.8	14.4	0.4
	500 or more	11.8	0.1	11.5	0.1	13.3	0.3	15.6	0.8	12.6	0.3

^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_2_6-3a: 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_6-3a.html