Table 15_1_1-2

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 15_1_1.2
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations per 100,000 population for acute conditions, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		682.9	15.1	731.1	12.6
Age	18–44	169.0	5.1	189.5	4.0
	45–64	483.3	12.1	485.7	9.0
	65 and over	2,767.5	62.0	2,875.0	55.6
	65–69	1,190.8	26.5	1,188.4	22.1
	70–74	1,765.2	39.0	1,849.6	36.4
	75–79	2,727.8	61.2	2,820.9	55.9
	80–84	4,145.4	99.7	4,558.9	95.1
	85 and over	6,487.3	157.0	7,793.5	167.2
Gender	Male	656.7	14.2	745.8	13.1
Gender	Female	715.9	16.3	740.5	12.9
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	856.5	29.0	1,086.5	39.1
	Second quartile	715.3	27.8	757.0	25.8
	Third quartile	609.8	24.1	626.7	26.0
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	567.6	34.2	536.8	33.0
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	672.0	49.1	715.2	47.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	613.1	44.1	757.1	52.4
	Medium metropolitan	603.8	52.4	573.7	55.8
	Small metropolitan	631.5	69.3	665.4	70.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	848.8	41.0	816.3	48.1
	Noncore (nonmetro)	974.0	42.8	1,075.1	50.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	657.3	35.3	731.1	33.5
	Midwest	746.2	30.2	717.7	25.5
	South	755.3	29.3	827.5	19.9
	West	519.4	20.6	580.4	24.5

^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_1-2: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/15_efficiency/T15_1_1-2.html