Table 2_3_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 2_3_1.1
Admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complications^a (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		21.6	1.1	28.1	1.0
Age	18–44	11.7	0.7	15.1	0.7
	45–64	28.6	1.5	34.7	1.5
	65 and over	40.3	2.0	56.9	2.0
	65–69	35.1	2.1	45.9	2.3
	70–74	40.6	2.4	54.2	2.5
	75–79	41.5	2.6	65.0	2.9
	80–84	47.4	3.1	68.7	3.4
	85 and over	42.8	2.9	66.0	3.6
Gender	Male	22.9	1.2	28.4	1.1
Gender	Female	20.3	1.0	27.7	1.1
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	41.4	2.8	57.2	3.1
	Second quartile	22.3	1.5	32.0	1.7
	Third quartile	14.5	1.0	19.9	1.3
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	9.9	0.9	12.0	0.9
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	30.1	3.4	33.5	3.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	16.6	1.8	23.0	1.9
	Medium metropolitan	14.3	1.5	17.3	2.2
	Small metropolitan	14.8	2.4	23.4	3.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	24.7	2.2	35.6	3.1
	Noncore (nonmetro)	29.9	2.4	46.8	3.3
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	29.3	4.0	29.6	3.4
	Midwest	19.4	1.5	27.7	2.2
	South	25.5	1.8	35.1	1.5
	West	10.7	0.9	15.3	1.1

^a Without short-term (ketoacidosis, hyperosmolarity, coma) or long-term (renal, eye, neurologic, circulatory, other unspecified) complications.

^b 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 2_3_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/nhqrdr09/2_diabetes/T2_3_1-1.html