Table 17_2_1-1a

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 17_2_1.1a
Admissions for hypertension (excluding patients with cardiac procedures, obstetric conditions, and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, 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		49.6	1.3	33.3	0.9	161.4	7.1	26.0	2.9	60.9	5.5
Age	18–44	17.6	0.6	9.5	0.3	69.5	3.1	5.2	0.9	10.6	1.0
	45–64	61.5	1.9	35.7	1.1	245.3	11.2	24.8	2.8	67.8	6.1
	65 and over	125.7	3.4	104.3	3.0	281.6	14.3	84.6	10.0	182.9	19.4
	65–69	86.5	2.8	62.0	2.2	259.2	15.3	55.8	8.7	117.6	12.3
	70–74	100.3	3.3	74.9	2.8	287.3	15.7	64.6	9.6	148.0	15.8
	75–79	130.6	4.0	108.0	3.6	290.1	18.1	94.4	14.1	214.5	24.8
	80–84	167.4	5.1	145.8	4.9	295.8	19.9	141.9	22.3	296.7	34.7
	85 and over	187.8	5.8	171.9	5.7	288.4	20.6	140.4	25.4	291.6	43.5
Gender	Male	40.2	1.1	27.3	0.8	134.9	6.0	18.3	2.3	45.4	4.3
Gender	Female	56.1	1.6	36.8	1.1	182.0	8.3	31.4	3.5	71.9	6.6
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	83.3	3.2	51.3	2.1	184.9	10.9	31.2	4.0	77.3	9.1
	Second quartile	47.0	1.8	32.0	1.2	153.4	8.3	36.0	6.2	56.8	6.3
	Third quartile	39.0	1.7	29.1	1.3	136.5	9.5	27.5	5.7	51.1	5.9
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	32.3	1.7	26.4	1.4	130.3	11.7	19.0	1.9	41.6	4.0
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	58.0	3.9	29.7	2.3	165.3	14.0	28.7	4.4	64.2	8.7
	Large fringe metropolitan	47.9	3.1	34.2	2.3	170.0	16.8	22.2	3.1	55.1	7.6
	Medium metropolitan	43.1	3.3	29.5	2.3	146.2	14.8	18.3	3.2	65.7	12.4
	Small metropolitan	34.3	3.3	26.1	2.6	124.1	16.7	22.7	6.4	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	48.6	2.8	38.2	2.2	176.1	19.7	DSU	DSU	57.0	9.9
	Noncore (nonmetro)	61.7	2.7	51.0	2.3	197.5	17.7	DSU	DSU	73.6	13.5
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	48.8	2.7	28.1	1.5	182.8	18.3	25.1	4.6	106.1	16.6
	Midwest	44.8	2.3	32.6	1.8	173.6	19.8	15.9	3.4	21.0	4.8
	South	66.2	2.9	44.6	2.1	156.0	9.1	DSU	DSU	76.5	12.3
	West	27.8	1.7	19.6	1.3	128.6	16.6	24.6	3.1	35.8	4.2

^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.

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 17_2_1-1a: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/17_utilization/T17_2_1-1a.html