Table 4_4_3-2a

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_3.2a
Deaths per 1,000 admissions with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasties (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		11.4	0.1	11.2	0.1	11.3	0.4	15.8	0.8	11.4	0.5
Age	40–44	5.2	0.4	4.4	0.4	8.5	1.1	DSU	DSU	5.4	1.2
	45–64	6.7	0.1	6.4	0.1	8.1	0.4	7.6	0.8	7.5	0.5
	65 and over	16.2	0.2	16.4	0.2	13.1	0.6	22.4	1.4	13.9	0.7
	65–69	9.3	0.3	9.5	0.3	8.0	0.9	18.5	2.1	8.8	1.0
	70–74	11.8	0.3	11.8	0.4	10.1	1.1	14.1	2.4	13.8	1.3
	75–79	16.8	0.4	16.4	0.4	17.2	1.5	22.5	2.9	17.5	1.6
	80–84	23.4	0.6	23.7	0.6	21.3	2.5	33.2	4.5	16.2	2.5
	85 and over	36.6	0.9	37.2	1.0	25.1	4.3	53.5	7.8	23.7	5.0
Gender	Male	9.9	0.1	10.0	0.1	8.9	0.4	11.5	0.9	8.7	0.5
Gender	Female	14.9	0.2	15.2	0.2	11.7	0.6	22.6	1.7	13.6	0.8
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	11.9	0.2	12.0	0.3	10.6	0.5	17.4	2.1	12.0	0.7
	Second quartile	11.5	0.2	11.1	0.2	13.9	0.8	14.3	1.7	12.1	1.0
	Third quartile	11.1	0.2	11.0	0.2	12.0	1.0	15.9	1.6	11.0	0.9
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	10.9	0.2	10.9	0.2	8.2	1.4	15.8	1.4	9.2	1.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	11.2	0.2	11.0	0.3	10.8	0.5	13.4	1.1	11.2	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.4	0.2	10.3	0.2	10.1	0.9	19.6	2.1	8.8	1.3
	Medium metropolitan	12.0	0.2	11.9	0.3	13.2	1.1	19.7	2.0	11.7	1.0
	Small metropolitan	12.2	0.4	12.0	0.4	15.2	1.5	25.0	5.1	11.1	1.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	12.3	0.3	12.1	0.4	14.7	1.9	DSU	DSU	12.7	1.9
	Noncore (nonmetro)	11.2	0.4	11.1	0.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	20.3	2.6
Expected payment source	Private insurance	10.7	0.3	10.3	0.3	14.4	1.0	14.5	1.9	11.0	1.1
	Medicare	11.1	0.1	11.1	0.1	9.7	0.5	16.4	1.1	11.0	0.6
	Medicaid	15.1	0.6	16.0	0.8	16.2	1.4	12.2	2.0	9.4	1.4
	Other insurance	12.9	0.9	13.7	1.0	DSU	DSU	25.9	5.2	9.5	2.6
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	16.2	0.6	14.9	0.8	20.2	1.9	21.0	4.0	18.8	1.7
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	10.0	0.3	9.9	0.3	10.0	1.1	14.4	2.4	9.0	1.1
	Midwest	10.8	0.2	10.8	0.2	10.6	0.7	17.0	3.5	DSU	DSU
	South	11.9	0.2	11.7	0.2	12.4	0.6	19.0	1.8	12.8	0.7
	West	12.5	0.3	12.5	0.3	10.3	1.5	14.7	1.1	11.6	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	11.0	0.1	11.0	0.1	10.7	0.4	16.4	1.0	10.6	0.6
	Private, for profit	12.2	0.3	12.0	0.3	11.8	1.0	16.5	1.9	12.8	0.9
	Public	12.6	0.4	12.4	0.4	14.2	1.1	12.4	2.0	12.1	1.3
Teaching status	Teaching	10.5	0.2	10.3	0.2	11.3	0.5	14.8	1.4	9.9	0.8
Teaching status	Nonteaching	11.9	0.1	11.8	0.2	11.3	0.6	16.3	1.0	12.2	0.6
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	11.1	0.2	10.8	0.2	11.3	0.5	14.3	1.0	10.9	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.4	0.2	10.3	0.3	9.4	0.8	17.0	2.2	12.1	1.4
	Medium metropolitan	11.8	0.2	11.6	0.2	13.6	1.0	20.4	2.1	11.9	0.9
	Small metropolitan	12.5	0.3	12.4	0.3	12.0	1.4	22.2	4.7	12.5	1.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	12.6	0.5	12.7	0.5	10.6	3.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetro)	8.4	2.4	8.8	2.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	10.4	0.6	11.1	0.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	100–299	11.9	0.2	11.6	0.2	11.5	0.8	15.3	1.2	14.0	0.8
	300–499	11.4	0.2	11.4	0.2	11.4	0.6	17.7	1.6	11.0	0.9
	500 or more	10.8	0.2	10.7	0.2	11.3	0.6	14.9	1.8	9.9	0.7

^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_3-2a: 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_3-2a.html