Table 12_3_8-1

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_3_8.1
Failure to rescue, or deaths per 1,000 discharges having developed specified complications of care during hospitalization (excluding patients transferred in or out and patients admitted from long-term care facilities), ages 18–74, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		114.0	0.3	153.4	0.4
Age	18–44	72.1	0.5	98.7	0.6
	45–64	115.3	0.4	153.9	0.5
	65–74	136.0	0.5	183.9	0.6
Gender	Male	121.9	0.4	164.9	0.5
Gender	Female	105.5	0.4	142.7	0.5
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	116.2	0.5	152.1	0.7
	Second quartile	114.3	0.5	153.8	0.7
	Third quartile	111.5	0.6	157.3	0.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	113.1	0.6	151.0	0.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	115.7	0.5	156.2	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	110.9	0.6	152.2	0.7
	Medium metropolitan	112.7	0.6	156.5	0.9
	Small metropolitan	117.7	1.0	155.7	1.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	117.5	0.9	146.8	1.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	109.2	1.1	142.3	1.4
Expected payment source	Private insurance	108.4	0.5	144.9	0.6
	Medicare	112.6	0.4	155.7	0.5
	Medicaid	120.1	0.7	157.1	1.0
	Other insurance	112.8	1.5	141.3	2.2
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	136.2	1.1	179.5	1.6
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	129.5	0.6	159.6	0.8
	Midwest	100.3	0.6	146.0	0.8
	South	111.0	0.4	149.4	0.6
	West	120.8	0.6	164.4	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	112.6	0.3	152.3	0.4
	Private, for profit	122.4	0.8	151.0	1.0
	Public	113.8	0.7	161.9	1.0
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	112.4	0.4	151.7	0.6
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	115.0	0.3	154.4	0.4
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	113.9	0.4	154.3	0.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	111.8	0.6	153.8	0.8
	Medium metropolitan	113.9	0.6	156.9	0.8
	Small metropolitan	117.2	0.9	156.2	1.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	119.8	1.0	144.5	1.4
	Noncore (nonmetro)	100.1	2.0	126.4	2.2
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	101.1	1.0	138.5	1.2
	100–299	118.2	0.5	154.0	0.6
	300–499	112.3	0.5	158.7	0.6
	500 or more	114.1	0.5	150.7	0.7

^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_3_8-1: 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_3_8-1.html