Table 15_1_1-1

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 15_1_1.1
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations per 100,000 population for all conditions, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		1,760.5	38.6	1,944.3	33.5
Age	18–44	446.7	13.5	474.3	11.1
	45–64	1,526.5	39.5	1,637.9	33.8
	65 and over	6,558.2	144.2	7,166.9	135.6
	65–69	3,450.2	75.4	3,861.2	71.4
	70–74	4,782.0	105.5	5,389.7	101.1
	75–79	6,650.9	147.3	7,429.8	145.6
	80–84	9,315.1	217.5	10,658.8	219.2
	85 and over	13,286.8	325.8	15,374.3	328.9
Gender	Male	1,770.5	37.6	1,998.1	34.3
Gender	Female	1,773.8	40.4	1,939.4	34.4
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	2,449.5	93.8	3,028.6	116.0
	Second quartile	1,823.0	69.8	2,064.7	69.9
	Third quartile	1,504.5	58.9	1,644.7	68.1
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	1,334.4	78.9	1,324.5	80.3
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	1,901.8	140.4	2,004.8	133.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	1,556.5	111.7	2,007.1	139.5
	Medium metropolitan	1,559.6	137.2	1,509.5	149.7
	Small metropolitan	1,530.3	171.0	1,753.4	189.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	2,054.7	103.0	2,124.5	128.8
	Noncore (nonmetro)	2,282.8	110.4	2,628.0	125.0
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	1,817.6	101.3	2,055.9	92.5
	Midwest	1,815.0	68.3	1,819.9	69.2
	South	1,999.4	75.3	2,241.7	52.3
	West	1,249.6	48.6	1,460.3	60.7

^a 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 15_1_1-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/15_efficiency/T15_1_1-1.html