Table 8_2_7-1

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_2_7.1
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with pneumonia as principal diagnosis (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		44.9	0.2	74.0	0.2
Age	18–44	11.5	0.4	20.0	0.4
	45–64	27.1	0.4	42.3	0.4
	65 and over	56.0	0.3	93.1	0.3
	65–69	33.9	0.7	60.2	0.7
	70–74	40.3	0.7	72.2	0.6
	75–79	46.8	0.6	83.4	0.6
	80–84	57.7	0.7	95.6	0.7
	85 and over	79.6	0.6	123.9	0.6
Gender	Male	47.2	0.3	79.3	0.3
Gender	Female	42.4	0.3	70.2	0.3
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	47.5	0.4	71.7	0.4
	Second quartile	46.8	0.4	73.3	0.4
	Third quartile	41.3	0.5	74.6	0.5
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	42.8	0.5	77.6	0.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	38.5	0.4	69.4	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	42.1	0.5	76.2	0.5
	Medium metropolitan	43.8	0.5	74.7	0.5
	Small metropolitan	50.9	0.8	80.8	0.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	52.5	0.6	77.1	0.7
	Noncore (nonmetro)	56.8	0.7	72.1	0.7
Expected payment source	Private insurance	49.7	0.7	75.8	0.7
	Medicare	43.9	0.2	73.6	0.2
	Medicaid	47.9	1.0	72.2	1.0
	Other insurance	61.0	1.9	79.0	2.3
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	46.0	1.9	83.5	1.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	49.2	0.5	77.3	0.5
	Midwest	39.7	0.4	71.3	0.5
	South	46.7	0.4	75.3	0.4
	West	43.2	0.5	70.2	0.5
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	44.0	0.3	74.4	0.3
	Private, for profit	43.6	0.6	69.7	0.6
	Public	51.1	0.6	76.1	0.6
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	39.6	0.4	73.4	0.4
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	46.8	0.3	74.1	0.3
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	38.5	0.4	69.2	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	42.8	0.5	76.4	0.5
	Medium metropolitan	43.7	0.5	75.0	0.5
	Small metropolitan	51.2	0.7	80.5	0.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	53.6	0.6	77.6	0.7
	Noncore (nonmetro)	60.0	0.9	70.9	0.8
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	54.3	0.5	74.5	0.5
	100–299	45.4	0.3	73.2	0.3
	300–499	39.5	0.5	75.5	0.4
	500 or more	40.5	0.5	72.8	0.6

^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 8_2_7-1: 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_2_7-1.html