Table 4_4_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_4_2.1
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with coronary artery bypass graft (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 40 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		24.4	0.3	41.9	0.3
Age	40–44	9.0	1.4	11.1	1.4
	45–64	12.9	0.3	21.1	0.3
	65 and over	33.0	0.4	56.6	0.4
	65–69	19.3	0.6	36.3	0.7
	70–74	25.8	0.8	48.6	0.8
	75–79	38.3	0.9	65.0	1.0
	80–84	52.5	1.4	93.1	1.6
	85 and over	73.9	2.9	106.7	3.3
Gender	Male	20.2	0.3	33.7	0.3
Gender	Female	34.5	0.6	59.3	0.6
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	25.8	0.6	42.3	0.6
	Second quartile	25.8	0.6	43.9	0.5
	Third quartile	24.3	0.6	42.2	0.6
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	21.4	0.6	38.3	0.6
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	24.5	0.6	43.0	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	22.7	0.6	38.1	0.6
	Medium metropolitan	22.3	0.7	39.1	0.7
	Small metropolitan	27.2	0.9	54.3	1.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	27.7	0.8	42.5	0.9
	Noncore (nonmetro)	25.7	1.0	40.9	1.0
Expected payment source	Private insurance	23.6	0.7	37.0	0.6
	Medicare	24.5	0.3	43.0	0.3
	Medicaid	27.8	1.6	47.8	1.7
	Other insurance	23.4	2.3	43.3	2.6
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	23.3	2.1	42.7	2.3
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	24.9	0.7	39.8	0.6
	Midwest	23.8	0.6	41.7	0.6
	South	24.5	0.4	43.3	0.5
	West	24.5	0.7	41.0	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	23.7	0.3	41.0	0.3
	Private, for profit	26.1	0.7	45.7	1.1
	Public	27.8	1.1	48.0	1.1
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	23.8	0.4	41.6	0.4
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	24.8	0.4	42.0	0.4
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	24.0	0.4	43.1	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	21.2	0.7	36.3	0.7
	Medium metropolitan	24.3	0.5	40.8	0.6
	Small metropolitan	30.5	0.9	50.4	0.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	31.3	2.1	27.8	3.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	37.7	10.7	494.2	59.8
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	22.0	1.2	36.9	4.6
	100–299	24.0	0.6	41.4	0.6
	300–499	25.1	0.5	42.9	0.5
	500 or more	24.3	0.5	40.9	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_4_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_4_2-1.html