Table 4_4_2-2a

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_2.2a
Deaths per 1,000 admissions with coronary artery bypass graft (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 40 and over, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2006
		Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		24.9	0.3	24.5	0.3	24.4	1.1	32.8	2.2	26.4	1.2
Age	40–44	11.7	1.5	10.8	1.7	26.4	4.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	45–64	12.4	0.3	11.1	0.4	15.1	1.1	19.0	2.4	16.6	1.2
	65 and over	34.4	0.5	34.7	0.5	29.9	1.8	42.7	3.2	32.5	1.9
	65–69	21.1	0.7	20.6	0.8	24.2	2.4	28.2	4.5	19.9	2.7
	70–74	26.2	0.8	26.4	0.9	19.7	3.1	32.3	5.2	30.7	3.3
	75–79	38.8	1.0	38.4	1.1	37.1	4.4	58.6	8.4	41.2	4.4
	80–84	55.2	1.5	54.6	1.6	70.0	8.1	72.2	12.4	50.0	6.8
	85 and over	75.1	3.0	78.4	3.2	DSU	DSU	88.3	24.5	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	20.7	0.3	20.9	0.4	17.5	1.2	25.2	2.3	20.3	1.2
Gender	Female	35.9	0.7	36.5	0.8	28.2	1.8	48.6	4.7	32.6	2.3
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	27.3	0.6	26.8	0.7	27.1	1.5	38.2	5.4	28.4	1.9
	Second quartile	25.3	0.6	25.0	0.6	22.6	2.3	31.5	4.5	28.4	2.4
	Third quartile	24.6	0.6	24.5	0.6	22.5	2.9	24.8	4.5	25.3	2.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	22.0	0.6	21.8	0.7	14.9	3.8	36.7	3.8	18.6	3.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	24.3	0.6	24.8	0.7	22.7	1.6	30.8	3.2	21.1	1.8
	Large fringe metropolitan	24.0	0.6	23.6	0.6	25.4	2.4	34.5	5.4	28.6	3.2
	Medium metropolitan	25.2	0.7	24.1	0.7	22.5	2.8	32.5	4.5	32.6	2.5
	Small metropolitan	23.7	1.0	22.7	1.0	36.0	4.5	DSU	DSU	27.1	4.5
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	26.8	0.9	26.4	0.9	20.0	5.1	49.1	13.4	30.5	4.5
	Noncore (nonmetro)	27.5	1.1	26.7	1.1	34.6	5.8	113.9	17.7	34.0	6.4
Expected payment source	Private insurance	22.7	0.7	21.1	0.8	28.1	2.6	31.1	4.8	25.8	3.0
	Medicare	25.4	0.3	25.4	0.4	23.7	1.3	37.4	3.0	25.5	1.5
	Medicaid	28.9	1.7	25.2	2.4	20.3	4.2	20.8	5.6	38.1	3.9
	Other insurance	21.7	2.5	22.2	2.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	22.3	2.0	21.7	2.6	26.6	6.1	DSU	DSU	21.7	5.6
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	26.1	0.7	25.8	0.8	28.7	2.9	40.4	6.4	24.2	2.6
	Midwest	24.2	0.5	24.2	0.6	22.8	1.9	45.1	8.0	23.6	5.6
	South	26.0	0.5	25.4	0.5	25.1	1.6	38.8	5.4	29.3	1.8
	West	21.7	0.8	20.4	0.9	DSU	DSU	28.1	2.8	23.6	2.4
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	24.3	0.3	24.1	0.4	23.7	1.3	31.2	2.7	22.8	1.5
	Private, for profit	27.4	0.8	26.7	0.9	26.3	3.2	24.8	5.3	31.9	2.3
	Public	25.7	1.0	23.9	1.1	26.9	3.5	50.2	5.9	33.8	3.9
Teaching status	Teaching	25.1	0.5	24.6	0.5	25.1	1.5	35.7	4.0	26.9	1.9
Teaching status	Nonteaching	24.7	0.4	24.4	0.4	23.5	1.6	31.5	2.7	26.2	1.6
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	25.6	0.5	25.5	0.5	25.6	1.5	31.4	3.0	23.1	1.7
	Large fringe metropolitan	22.4	0.7	21.8	0.7	22.3	2.5	39.2	6.2	29.9	3.6
	Medium metropolitan	25.0	0.6	24.4	0.6	22.8	2.6	30.7	4.4	29.5	2.2
	Small metropolitan	25.1	0.9	24.4	0.9	29.0	4.6	DSU	DSU	33.0	4.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	29.5	1.7	29.6	1.8	DSU	DSU	127.1	18.4	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetro)	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	26.6	1.9	27.4	2.1	DSU	DSU	87.2	17.8	DSU	DSU
	100–299	25.9	0.6	24.8	0.7	23.0	2.7	32.9	3.2	33.2	2.4
	300–499	23.5	0.5	23.0	0.5	24.6	1.8	35.0	4.2	25.5	2.2
	500 or more	25.6	0.5	25.7	0.6	25.0	1.7	26.0	4.8	23.7	1.9

^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: 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 4_4_2-2a: 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_2-2a.html