Table 4_4_1-1

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_4_1.1
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair (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		64.4	1.2	83.7	1.0
Age	18–44	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	45–64	25.8	1.8	33.9	1.7
	65 and over	76.1	1.4	93.8	1.2
	65–69	47.8	2.4	53.6	2.1
	70–74	53.3	2.6	80.2	2.1
	75–79	85.6	2.9	106.2	2.6
	80–84	92.0	3.4	117.7	3.3
	85 and over	137.4	6.4	187.9	5.5
Gender	Male	59.4	1.3	74.2	1.1
Gender	Female	96.4	2.9	114.5	2.6
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	70.2	2.6	89.9	2.2
	Second quartile	63.0	2.3	82.4	1.9
	Third quartile	63.8	2.2	84.1	2.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	61.6	2.4	79.2	2.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	66.9	2.4	85.3	2.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	62.3	2.4	82.3	2.0
	Medium metropolitan	65.1	2.5	85.4	2.3
	Small metropolitan	55.6	3.6	79.1	3.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	71.0	3.3	89.3	3.3
	Noncore (nonmetro)	63.1	4.3	77.2	3.8
Expected payment source	Private insurance	55.2	3.2	73.6	2.7
	Medicare	66.8	1.3	85.6	1.2
	Medicaid	49.1	9.5	56.4	10.3
	Other insurance	58.3	10.1	71.8	11.9
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	53.2	9.3	107.2	7.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	80.1	2.4	84.4	2.2
	Midwest	59.2	2.4	78.5	2.1
	South	58.6	2.0	82.1	1.7
	West	63.3	2.8	95.4	2.7
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	62.3	1.3	82.1	1.2
	Private, for profit	68.4	3.4	96.1	3.3
	Public	77.0	3.8	84.2	3.4
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	62.5	1.8	76.6	1.9
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	66.0	1.6	87.0	1.3
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	59.4	2.0	81.2	1.9
	Large fringe metropolitan	68.7	2.7	84.4	2.2
	Medium metropolitan	65.0	2.2	80.8	2.0
	Small metropolitan	61.2	3.4	80.9	2.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	99.8	5.8	119.6	4.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	DSU	DSU	101.7	18.0
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	65.7	5.8	106.9	5.3
	100–299	75.9	2.2	92.7	1.7
	300–499	57.1	1.9	79.3	1.8
	500 or more	62.3	2.2	73.1	2.1

^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.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

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_4_1-1: 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_4_1-1.html