Table 8_1_3-1

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 8_1_3.1
Immunization-preventable influenza admissions (excluding transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 65 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		59.4	3.6	76.9	3.6
Age	65–69	26.6	1.9	39.7	1.9
	70–74	41.3	2.8	54.5	2.8
	75–79	65.4	4.4	77.9	4.2
	80–84	94.2	6.1	117.3	6.7
	85 and over	127.2	9.3	164.3	10.2
Gender	Male	66.6	4.5	80.0	4.2
Gender	Female	55.8	3.3	75.9	3.5
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	58.6	3.8	114.4	6.8
	Second quartile	59.6	4.9	76.9	4.3
	Third quartile	56.8	4.9	62.2	5.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	63.5	8.0	56.5	7.7
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	40.2	5.9	49.3	6.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	64.4	10.3	62.4	6.2
	Medium metropolitan	59.3	10.0	68.3	12.9
	Small metropolitan	64.2	10.9	91.6	11.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	59.6	5.0	103.6	8.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	101.3	8.5	168.1	13.2
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	50.0	9.6	71.2	11.2
	Midwest	83.8	8.7	119.3	8.9
	South	66.3	5.8	72.1	4.0
	West	29.3	5.0	38.9	3.7

^a Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population; when reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender only; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age only.

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 8_1_3-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_1_3-1.html