Table 6_2_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 6_2_1.1
Birth trauma - injury to neonate per 1,000 live births (excluding preterm and osteogenesis imperfecta births), United States, 2004 and 2006
		2006		2004
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		1.58	0.03	2.00	0.03
Gender	Male	1.69	0.04	2.13	0.04
Gender	Female	1.48	0.04	1.86	0.04
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	1.56	0.06	1.80	0.06
	Second quartile	1.66	0.06	1.76	0.06
	Third quartile	1.57	0.06	2.04	0.06
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	1.53	0.06	2.38	0.06
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	1.43	0.05	2.11	0.05
	Large fringe metropolitan	1.49	0.06	2.40	0.06
	Medium metropolitan	1.71	0.06	1.63	0.07
	Small metropolitan	1.62	0.10	1.40	0.09
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	1.80	0.09	2.11	0.10
	Noncore (nonmetro)	1.97	0.13	1.67	0.12
Expected payment source	Private insurance	1.50	0.04	2.18	0.04
	Medicare	DSU	DSU	4.25	1.15
	Medicaid	1.69	0.04	1.74	0.05
	Other insurance	1.85	0.19	2.45	0.20
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	1.37	0.12	1.79	0.13
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	2.06	0.07	2.42	0.07
	Midwest	1.57	0.06	1.69	0.06
	South	1.51	0.05	2.16	0.05
	West	1.41	0.06	1.72	0.06
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	1.65	0.04	2.26	0.03
	Private, for profit	1.14	0.08	1.14	0.08
	Public	1.71	0.08	1.45	0.08
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	1.79	0.05	2.17	0.05
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	1.48	0.04	1.91	0.04
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	1.49	0.05	2.33	0.05
	Large fringe metropolitan	1.42	0.07	2.13	0.07
	Medium metropolitan	1.69	0.06	1.52	0.07
	Small metropolitan	1.66	0.09	1.55	0.09
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	1.70	0.10	2.05	0.10
	Noncore (nonmetro)	2.58	0.20	1.39	0.18
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	1.64	0.09	1.28	0.09
	100–299	1.55	0.05	1.84	0.05
	300–499	1.60	0.05	2.14	0.06
	500 or more	1.59	0.06	2.47	0.06

^a Rates are adjusted by gender. When reporting is by gender, there is no adjustment.

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 6_2_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/nhqrdr09/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_2_1-1.html