Table 4_2_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 4_2_2.1
Deaths per 1,000 admissions with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as principal diagnosis (excluding transfers to another hospital), age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		73.0	0.3	105.8	0.3
Age	18–44	16.8	0.7	21.1	0.7
	45–64	33.7	0.4	45.5	0.4
	65 and over	100.0	0.5	144.9	0.5
	65–69	58.3	0.9	88.6	0.9
	70–74	72.7	1.0	113.2	0.9
	75–79	91.2	1.1	140.6	1.0
	80–84	115.7	1.2	161.2	1.2
	85 and over	145.0	1.2	207.5	1.3
Gender	Male	60.2	0.4	92.1	0.4
Gender	Female	86.6	0.6	127.0	0.6
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	75.1	0.7	110.9	0.6
	Second quartile	75.2	0.7	106.3	0.6
	Third quartile	71.7	0.7	105.2	0.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	69.5	0.7	99.0	0.7
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	69.6	0.6	101.4	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	69.1	0.7	101.3	0.6
	Medium metropolitan	69.1	0.8	102.6	0.8
	Small metropolitan	78.0	1.2	117.1	1.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	82.9	1.0	113.9	1.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	85.9	1.2	118.0	1.1
Expected payment source	Private insurance	73.7	1.0	98.1	0.9
	Medicare	71.8	0.4	106.5	0.4
	Medicaid	76.7	1.8	103.2	1.8
	Other insurance	88.3	2.7	113.8	3.3
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	95.1	2.2	133.2	2.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	77.4	0.7	103.5	0.7
	Midwest	69.9	0.7	111.9	0.7
	South	71.3	0.5	104.1	0.5
	West	75.8	0.8	104.5	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	71.5	0.4	104.4	0.4
	Private, for profit	74.6	0.9	105.8	0.9
	Public	82.7	1.1	117.6	1.1
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	68.3	0.6	99.9	0.6
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	75.7	0.4	108.2	0.4
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	69.1	0.6	102.1	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	71.0	0.8	102.0	0.7
	Medium metropolitan	70.5	0.7	103.6	0.7
	Small metropolitan	77.9	1.1	113.1	1.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	87.8	1.2	117.1	1.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	109.5	2.3	131.2	1.9
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	87.9	1.1	119.6	1.0
	100–299	75.4	0.6	105.0	0.5
	300–499	70.1	0.6	105.4	0.6
	500 or more	67.8	0.7	100.4	0.8

^a Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, and All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender and APR-DRG risk of mortality score; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age and APR-DRG risk of mortality score.

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 4_2_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/nhqrdr09/4_heartdiseases/T4_2_2-1.html