Table 2_3_1-2a

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_1.2a
Admissions for uncontrolled diabetes without complications^a (excluding obstetric admissions 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^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		20.3	0.7	12.2	0.4	65.7	3.4	7.2	0.9	37.8	3.8
Age	18–44	11.1	0.4	6.7	0.3	33.2	1.9	1.7	0.4	12.0	1.1
	45–64	26.8	1.0	14.6	0.5	97.1	5.0	7.7	1.1	48.0	4.9
	65 and over	37.9	1.3	25.8	0.8	108.4	7.3	22.7	3.2	92.8	11.2
	65–69	32.6	1.5	19.0	1.0	111.6	9.1	16.1	3.4	71.7	9.1
	70–74	36.0	1.7	21.9	1.2	113.5	8.8	22.6	5.7	93.5	12.1
	75–79	39.8	1.8	28.2	1.3	107.3	9.6	25.1	5.9	102.3	14.8
	80–84	48.1	2.0	36.3	1.7	120.0	11.3	35.6	8.3	130.8	16.8
	85 and over	38.9	2.0	31.7	1.7	77.4	8.7	DSU	DSU	103.4	22.0
Gender	Male	21.1	0.7	13.0	0.4	67.9	3.7	7.4	1.0	35.7	3.5
Gender	Female	19.5	0.7	11.4	0.4	63.1	3.5	6.8	1.1	39.1	4.1
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	40.0	1.9	22.7	1.0	83.4	5.4	10.3	2.0	53.4	6.9
	Second quartile	19.8	0.9	13.2	0.6	57.5	4.1	10.5	1.9	36.5	4.6
	Third quartile	14.0	0.7	9.6	0.5	47.0	3.4	8.7	2.0	27.4	3.3
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	9.3	0.5	6.8	0.4	43.7	4.1	3.9	0.9	17.9	2.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	26.6	2.2	10.8	0.9	73.4	7.2	8.2	1.4	43.5	6.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	16.8	1.1	11.0	0.7	62.2	6.0	3.3	0.7	26.5	4.5
	Medium metropolitan	15.5	1.4	10.5	1.0	47.0	5.3	5.7	1.2	30.8	5.9
	Small metropolitan	12.4	1.3	8.6	0.9	46.2	7.6	DSU	DSU	21.4	6.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	22.1	1.3	16.0	1.1	74.4	7.9	DSU	DSU	54.8	12.7
	Noncore (nonmetro)	29.3	1.6	22.5	1.3	99.7	10.7	DSU	DSU	56.7	10.3
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	25.6	2.3	11.1	0.6	100.6	13.5	9.5	1.9	82.3	17.3
	Midwest	15.6	1.0	11.6	0.8	54.8	6.8	DSU	DSU	13.0	2.4
	South	26.2	1.2	16.3	0.8	62.3	3.9	DSU	DSU	40.7	6.5
	West	11.0	0.7	6.6	0.4	41.9	5.5	6.3	1.0	22.7	2.6

^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.

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 2_3_1-2a: 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_1-2a.html