Table 2_3_2-1

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_2.1
Admissions for diabetes with short-term 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		59.6	1.7	51.4	1.4
Age	18–44	70.5	2.2	55.7	1.8
	45–64	54.0	1.7	47.3	1.5
	65 and over	34.9	1.2	43.5	1.3
	65–69	38.6	1.9	37.4	1.8
	70–74	34.5	1.8	38.7	1.8
	75–79	32.3	1.9	45.3	2.1
	80–84	34.4	2.2	53.1	2.7
	85 and over	33.0	2.2	54.6	3.3
Gender	Male	61.9	1.9	53.6	1.8
Gender	Female	57.4	1.7	49.2	1.3
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	91.6	4.5	86.7	4.4
	Second quartile	65.6	2.9	59.1	2.5
	Third quartile	49.4	2.2	42.8	2.0
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	34.5	2.2	29.0	1.9
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	65.9	5.5	62.0	5.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	48.4	4.0	48.5	3.8
	Medium metropolitan	62.7	6.0	39.6	4.5
	Small metropolitan	59.0	7.7	49.4	6.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	65.5	4.2	48.7	3.5
	Noncore (nonmetro)	58.1	3.7	56.6	3.5
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	59.4	4.2	47.8	2.8
	Midwest	56.3	3.1	45.8	3.0
	South	69.5	3.3	61.8	2.7
	West	47.6	2.8	43.4	2.8

^a Ketoacidosis, hyperosmolarity, or coma.

^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_2-1: 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_2-1.html