Table 12_3_2-2

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_3_2.2
Accidental puncture or laceration during procedure^a (excluding obstetric admissions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		48.1	1.9	45.0	1.9
Age	18–44	19.1	0.8	18.7	0.8
	45–64	56.3	2.4	50.7	2.4
	65 and over	126.7	5.5	120.5	5.5
	65–69	105.4	5.0	95.1	4.5
	70–74	131.4	6.1	119.3	6.1
	75–79	151.2	7.2	144.5	7.1
	80–84	146.6	7.6	146.3	8.1
	85 and over	112.9	5.8	121.0	6.3
Gender	Male	40.4	1.8	38.3	1.8
Gender	Female	55.9	2.1	52.0	2.0
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	46.4	2.4	51.9	3.1
	Second quartile	52.0	2.5	49.8	2.6
	Third quartile	48.2	2.5	45.4	2.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	46.7	3.5	35.9	2.6
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	42.2	3.6	39.4	3.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	43.6	3.8	47.9	4.2
	Medium metropolitan	52.5	5.5	44.0	5.4
	Small metropolitan	53.1	5.4	49.9	5.6
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	55.9	4.6	45.8	3.8
	Noncore (nonmetro)	56.5	4.6	52.7	4.7
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	39.7	4.6	40.3	4.7
	Midwest	50.6	4.5	48.3	4.4
	South	48.9	2.8	46.1	2.9
	West	51.8	3.7	43.7	3.3

^a Includes admissions specifically for such problems, such as cases from earlier admissions or from other hospitals.

^b Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population; when reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender only; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age only.

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_3_2-2: 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_3_2-2.html