Table 2_3_2-4a

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_2.4a
Admissions for diabetes with short-term complications^a (excluding transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, ages 6–17, 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		33.5	2.7	31.0	2.4	56.0	7.7	10.2	2.8	25.9	3.3
Age	6–9	15.4	1.5	16.3	1.7	20.3	3.4	DSU	DSU	9.7	1.7
	10–14	37.7	3.5	35.0	3.1	61.9	9.9	DSU	DSU	28.3	4.3
	15–17	51.0	3.3	44.3	2.8	94.8	11.6	DSU	DSU	44.2	5.0
Gender	Male	29.3	2.4	28.6	2.3	46.3	6.4	6.1	1.7	21.2	2.7
Gender	Female	37.8	3.1	33.6	2.7	66.2	9.6	DSU	DSU	31.0	4.2
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	44.0	4.2	43.8	3.5	61.6	9.7	DSU	DSU	29.1	4.2
	Second quartile	36.5	3.1	35.4	3.0	59.1	9.4	DSU	DSU	23.5	3.6
	Third quartile	32.0	3.0	30.3	3.0	48.2	8.5	DSU	DSU	28.2	4.9
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	22.4	2.7	21.9	2.7	40.2	8.1	6.5	1.4	19.1	3.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	33.1	5.1	28.7	4.9	54.0	12.4	7.8	2.1	28.3	5.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	27.3	4.3	24.2	3.7	54.8	12.2	DSU	DSU	20.9	5.1
	Medium metropolitan	36.4	4.6	33.9	4.4	59.2	12.5	DSU	DSU	28.6	7.0
	Small metropolitan	35.4	4.7	32.9	4.0	63.6	18.7	DSU	DSU	21.0	6.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	38.0	3.0	38.9	3.2	43.4	8.3	DSU	DSU	17.0	3.8
	Noncore (nonmetro)	39.8	4.3	38.1	4.4	78.5	16.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	22.7	3.0	18.2	3.0	44.4	9.6	DSU	DSU	27.1	6.8
	Midwest	40.3	6.8	35.5	5.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	13.0	3.6
	South	37.5	5.3	35.0	4.3	49.9	9.9	DSU	DSU	29.8	6.6
	West	29.0	4.6	30.7	5.7	53.0	13.6	DSU	DSU	25.3	5.1

^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.

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_2-4a: 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_2-4a.html