Table 4_3_5-1

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_3_5.1
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with congestive heart failure as principal diagnosis (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		32.7	0.2	55.3	0.2
Age	18–44	12.8	0.5	19.4	0.7
	45–64	16.1	0.3	27.9	0.3
	65 and over	39.3	0.2	64.3	0.2
	65–69	22.5	0.5	39.4	0.6
	70–74	28.6	0.5	50.4	0.5
	75–79	34.1	0.5	58.3	0.5
	80–84	40.3	0.5	68.3	0.6
	85 and over	53.9	0.4	87.0	0.5
Gender	Male	32.3	0.3	57.4	0.3
Gender	Female	33.7	0.2	53.6	0.3
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	34.3	0.3	54.3	0.4
	Second quartile	33.9	0.3	56.8	0.4
	Third quartile	30.6	0.4	53.4	0.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	31.6	0.4	56.5	0.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	29.1	0.3	50.2	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	31.2	0.4	54.7	0.4
	Medium metropolitan	30.8	0.4	56.9	0.5
	Small metropolitan	37.6	0.6	61.7	0.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	40.3	0.5	59.5	0.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	41.0	0.6	60.3	0.7
Expected payment source	Private insurance	41.4	0.6	60.1	0.6
	Medicare	31.6	0.2	54.9	0.2
	Medicaid	30.9	0.9	45.0	1.0
	Other insurance	57.5	1.7	73.8	2.2
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	37.9	1.5	63.9	1.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	37.1	0.4	57.7	0.4
	Midwest	30.5	0.4	56.2	0.4
	South	32.1	0.3	54.6	0.3
	West	31.8	0.4	52.2	0.5
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	32.5	0.2	55.9	0.2
	Private, for profit	30.8	0.5	50.7	0.5
	Public	36.6	0.5	57.0	0.6
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	30.0	0.3	53.0	0.4
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	33.9	0.2	56.2	0.2
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	28.8	0.3	51.3	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	31.3	0.4	54.2	0.4
	Medium metropolitan	31.1	0.4	56.8	0.5
	Small metropolitan	38.3	0.6	63.0	0.6
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	41.8	0.6	58.7	0.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	49.5	0.9	59.0	0.9
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	40.5	0.5	58.6	0.5
	100–299	32.7	0.3	53.9	0.3
	300–499	30.6	0.3	57.2	0.4
	500 or more	30.5	0.4	52.8	0.5

^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_3_5-1: 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_3_5-1.html