Table 12_3_8-2a

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_8.2a
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, 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		116.8	0.3	117.1	0.3	111.0	0.6	130.7	1.8	122.1	0.9
Age	18–44	75.9	0.5	73.8	0.7	73.5	1.0	96.3	3.5	82.9	1.4
	45–64	117.0	0.4	117.1	0.5	111.0	0.8	135.8	2.8	122.8	1.3
	65–74	139.6	0.5	142.3	0.6	128.3	1.2	143.6	3.2	139.4	1.8
Gender	Male	123.9	0.4	127.1	0.5	110.4	0.8	141.2	2.6	126.8	1.2
Gender	Female	108.9	0.4	111.6	0.5	101.1	0.8	120.2	2.6	105.4	1.3
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	118.7	0.5	120.5	0.7	114.0	0.8	138.6	4.6	121.4	1.3
	Second quartile	117.0	0.6	118.1	0.7	108.1	1.3	131.2	3.9	124.4	1.9
	Third quartile	115.9	0.6	116.0	0.7	107.0	1.5	127.7	3.5	122.7	2.0
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	114.4	0.6	113.9	0.7	106.9	1.9	128.9	3.2	119.7	2.6
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	120.8	0.5	124.2	0.7	112.0	0.8	127.6	2.4	125.5	1.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	110.8	0.6	112.0	0.7	103.3	1.3	113.2	4.4	118.4	2.4
	Medium metropolitan	118.4	0.6	118.0	0.8	114.4	1.6	153.8	4.6	118.6	1.9
	Small metropolitan	114.8	1.0	113.0	1.1	114.9	2.6	146.5	13.9	130.8	4.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	118.8	0.9	118.6	1.0	120.9	2.8	151.7	8.5	109.1	4.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	113.6	1.1	113.4	1.2	112.4	3.2	115.0	25.7	106.4	5.8
Expected payment source	Private insurance	110.0	0.5	109.4	0.6	105.3	1.3	133.1	3.4	114.7	2.0
	Medicare	115.7	0.4	117.8	0.5	108.0	0.9	121.2	2.9	115.8	1.4
	Medicaid	126.0	0.7	126.2	1.1	119.5	1.3	142.7	4.0	131.2	1.7
	Other insurance	114.0	1.6	117.8	2.0	105.1	3.5	142.0	10.8	106.6	4.2
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	137.5	1.2	139.8	1.6	125.3	2.3	135.6	7.8	144.2	2.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	124.5	0.6	124.0	0.8	124.7	1.4	136.7	4.7	123.1	2.0
	Midwest	109.0	0.6	112.8	0.7	99.0	1.2	100.8	7.9	96.6	4.8
	South	112.2	0.4	113.1	0.5	109.1	0.8	111.2	4.1	111.2	1.4
	West	129.3	0.6	125.5	0.8	130.2	2.0	138.9	2.4	135.2	1.4
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	114.9	0.3	115.9	0.4	107.9	0.7	128.6	2.2	120.1	1.1
	Private, for profit	122.3	0.7	119.9	1.0	123.8	1.7	129.1	5.0	125.1	2.0
	Public	121.7	0.7	121.9	1.0	115.4	1.5	139.4	4.2	125.2	2.0
Teaching status	Teaching	114.8	0.4	116.0	0.6	109.2	0.8	130.8	2.9	116.3	1.4
Teaching status	Nonteaching	118.1	0.3	117.7	0.4	112.8	0.8	130.6	2.4	126.1	1.2
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	119.8	0.4	120.7	0.6	113.2	0.8	126.3	2.3	124.6	1.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	109.6	0.6	111.2	0.7	101.4	1.3	114.4	4.9	121.5	2.6
	Medium metropolitan	118.7	0.6	118.9	0.7	112.1	1.5	155.5	4.6	119.4	1.8
	Small metropolitan	115.9	0.9	114.7	1.0	116.7	2.4	127.2	14.7	130.4	4.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	120.0	1.0	119.5	1.1	124.5	3.0	159.1	8.9	97.6	5.4
	Noncore (nonmetro)	105.2	2.0	107.1	2.2	103.3	5.1	DSU	DSU	60.0	11.9
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	106.9	1.0	106.2	1.1	105.5	3.1	136.5	8.3	107.7	4.0
	100–299	120.7	0.5	120.5	0.6	114.5	1.0	131.3	2.6	129.8	1.5
	300–499	116.8	0.5	115.8	0.6	113.0	1.0	128.9	3.7	126.6	1.7
	500 or more	114.7	0.5	118.2	0.7	106.2	1.0	129.9	4.1	111.8	1.6

^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_3_8-2a: 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_8-2a.html