Table 12_2_7-1
2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
2006 | 2000 | ||||
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Population group | Rateb | SE | Rateb | SE | |
Total | 0.42 | 0.01 | 0.43 | 0.01 | |
Age | 18–44 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.23 | 0.02 |
45–64 | 0.43 | 0.01 | 0.36 | 0.01 | |
65 and over | 0.59 | 0.02 | 0.61 | 0.02 | |
65–69 | 0.63 | 0.03 | 0.53 | 0.03 | |
70–74 | 0.51 | 0.03 | 0.59 | 0.03 | |
75–79 | 0.67 | 0.03 | 0.69 | 0.04 | |
80–84 | 0.60 | 0.04 | 0.77 | 0.06 | |
85 and over | 0.41 | 0.04 | 0.46 | 0.06 | |
Gender | Male | 0.57 | 0.02 | 0.56 | 0.02 |
Female | 0.37 | 0.01 | 0.34 | 0.01 | |
Median income of patient's ZIP code | First quartile (lowest income) | 0.45 | 0.02 | 0.43 | 0.02 |
Second quartile | 0.42 | 0.02 | 0.43 | 0.02 | |
Third quartile | 0.39 | 0.02 | 0.43 | 0.02 | |
Fourth quartile (highest income) | 0.42 | 0.02 | 0.42 | 0.02 | |
Location of patient residence | Large central metropolitan | 0.47 | 0.02 | 0.47 | 0.02 |
Large fringe metropolitan | 0.43 | 0.02 | 0.44 | 0.02 | |
Medium metropolitan | 0.44 | 0.02 | 0.50 | 0.02 | |
Small metropolitan | 0.38 | 0.03 | 0.46 | 0.03 | |
Micropolitan (nonmetro) | 0.38 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 0.03 | |
Noncore (nonmetro) | 0.33 | 0.03 | 0.32 | 0.03 | |
Expected payment source | Private insurance | 0.46 | 0.02 | 0.39 | 0.02 |
Medicare | 0.39 | 0.01 | 0.43 | 0.01 | |
Medicaid | 0.67 | 0.04 | 0.76 | 0.05 | |
Other insurance | 0.60 | 0.06 | 0.27 | 0.07 | |
Uninsured/self-pay/no charge | 0.32 | 0.07 | 0.29 | 0.08 | |
Region of inpatient treatment | Northeast | 0.49 | 0.02 | 0.46 | 0.02 |
Midwest | 0.39 | 0.02 | 0.32 | 0.02 | |
South | 0.40 | 0.01 | 0.35 | 0.02 | |
West | 0.46 | 0.02 | 0.68 | 0.02 | |
Ownership/control of hospital | Private, not for profit | 0.41 | 0.01 | 0.44 | 0.01 |
Private, for profit | 0.47 | 0.02 | 0.37 | 0.03 | |
Public | 0.44 | 0.03 | 0.37 | 0.03 | |
Teaching status of hospital | Teaching | 0.43 | 0.01 | 0.46 | 0.02 |
Nonteaching | 0.41 | 0.01 | 0.41 | 0.01 | |
Location of hospital | Large central metropolitan | 0.47 | 0.01 | 0.47 | 0.02 |
Large fringe metropolitan | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0.43 | 0.02 | |
Medium metropolitan | 0.42 | 0.02 | 0.45 | 0.02 | |
Small metropolitan | 0.33 | 0.03 | 0.40 | 0.03 | |
Micropolitan (nonmetro) | 0.33 | 0.04 | DSU | DSU | |
Noncore (nonmetro) | DSU | DSU | DSU | DSU | |
Bed size of hospital | Less than 100 | 0.30 | 0.03 | 0.24 | 0.04 |
100–299 | 0.42 | 0.02 | 0.40 | 0.02 | |
300–499 | 0.39 | 0.02 | 0.45 | 0.02 | |
500 or more | 0.50 | 0.02 | 0.47 | 0.02 |
a That is, excluding patients with diabetic coma and patients with renal failure who also were diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, shock, hemorrhage, or gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
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: 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.