Table 18_4_2-1a

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 18_4_2.1a
Perforated appendixes per 1,000 admissions with appendicitis, age 18 and over, in Indian Health Service and Tribal direct and contract hospitals and community hospitals,^a 2007
		2007
Population group		Rate	SE
Total	Age adjusted^b	402.7	1.1
Total	Unadjusted	345.7	18.3
Age	18–44	275.4	20.3
	45–64	509.7	40.2
	65 and over	583.3	82.2
Gender	Male	378.2	25.7
Gender	Female	309.2	26.0

^a Service population does not include the Portland and California regions.

^b The total estimates are age adjusted using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Indian Health Service, Office of Information Technology/National Patient Information Reporting System, National Data Warehouse, Workload and Population Data Mart.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 18_4_2-1a: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/18_populations/T18_4_2-1a.html