Table 8_2_7-2a

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 8_2_7.2a
Deaths per 1,000 admissions with pneumonia as principal diagnosis (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital), age 18 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		44.8	0.2	45.4	0.3	41.4	0.7	49.3	1.5	42.1	0.9
Age	18–44	12.7	0.4	13.1	0.5	11.5	0.7	23.7	3.2	12.3	1.0
	45–64	27.0	0.4	27.5	0.4	24.5	0.8	43.0	2.9	25.2	1.2
	65 and over	56.0	0.3	57.3	0.3	47.0	0.9	58.1	2.0	50.3	1.2
	65–69	35.3	0.7	35.7	0.8	33.5	1.8	43.6	4.4	33.4	2.4
	70–74	41.5	0.7	42.7	0.8	35.4	1.9	44.5	4.6	37.3	2.5
	75–79	46.8	0.6	47.8	0.7	41.5	2.1	45.6	4.1	43.4	2.4
	80–84	57.8	0.7	58.8	0.7	48.1	2.3	65.0	4.3	49.2	2.7
	85 and over	77.8	0.6	78.5	0.7	71.7	2.3	74.5	4.1	75.9	2.6
Gender	Male	47.4	0.3	49.9	0.4	34.2	0.8	59.6	2.2	39.6	1.1
Gender	Female	42.4	0.3	45.4	0.3	28.3	0.6	45.0	2.2	34.9	1.0
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	47.4	0.4	49.6	0.5	41.5	0.9	45.4	3.7	43.0	1.3
	Second quartile	47.1	0.5	47.4	0.5	43.5	1.4	56.1	2.9	44.6	1.8
	Third quartile	41.7	0.4	41.7	0.5	39.9	1.7	50.8	2.8	38.9	1.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	42.3	0.5	42.5	0.5	38.2	2.2	44.5	2.6	40.4	2.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	40.9	0.4	41.5	0.5	38.5	0.9	43.2	1.8	40.4	1.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	40.6	0.5	40.8	0.5	35.9	1.5	43.0	4.2	44.1	2.5
	Medium metropolitan	45.7	0.5	45.8	0.6	43.4	1.9	66.3	3.5	41.0	1.8
	Small metropolitan	44.6	0.8	44.2	0.8	50.6	2.9	50.9	10.9	44.8	3.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	54.1	0.6	54.2	0.7	51.1	2.7	77.8	6.4	48.5	3.6
	Noncore (nonmetro)	53.4	0.7	52.7	0.8	61.9	2.9	DSU	DSU	54.8	4.7
Expected payment source	Private insurance	51.1	0.7	52.2	0.8	45.5	2.1	68.8	5.0	43.7	2.9
	Medicare	43.7	0.2	44.2	0.3	39.9	0.8	45.0	1.6	41.3	1.0
	Medicaid	45.6	1.1	47.2	1.6	41.8	2.1	57.5	4.5	43.7	2.4
	Other insurance	62.2	2.2	63.5	2.6	52.3	6.4	86.4	13.7	57.4	6.5
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	58.6	1.9	62.6	2.6	56.8	4.0	74.9	14.0	42.6	4.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	48.1	0.5	48.9	0.5	43.8	1.5	61.6	4.2	42.8	1.9
	Midwest	39.3	0.5	40.6	0.5	29.7	1.4	38.6	7.5	36.0	5.4
	South	46.2	0.4	46.6	0.4	46.1	1.0	39.5	4.3	41.9	1.3
	West	45.5	0.5	45.7	0.6	41.9	2.1	49.4	1.7	42.5	1.4
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	42.9	0.3	43.5	0.3	39.4	0.8	48.3	1.8	40.1	1.1
	Private, for profit	47.8	0.6	49.1	0.7	44.6	1.7	44.4	3.1	43.9	1.6
	Public	52.0	0.6	52.4	0.7	47.5	1.8	61.4	4.0	47.9	2.4
Teaching status	Teaching	40.9	0.4	41.5	0.5	38.4	1.0	46.2	2.9	39.2	1.6
Teaching status	Nonteaching	46.2	0.3	46.5	0.3	43.5	0.9	50.3	1.7	43.3	1.0
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	41.6	0.4	42.2	0.5	39.4	1.0	42.3	1.8	40.7	1.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	40.2	0.5	40.5	0.5	34.9	1.5	48.6	4.6	43.9	2.6
	Medium metropolitan	45.2	0.5	45.1	0.6	43.8	1.8	65.8	3.5	41.6	1.7
	Small metropolitan	45.4	0.7	44.8	0.8	55.3	2.7	44.6	11.3	42.5	3.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	54.2	0.6	54.1	0.7	50.2	2.7	84.4	6.7	50.4	3.8
	Noncore (nonmetro)	56.0	0.9	55.6	0.9	57.4	3.6	DSU	DSU	59.9	7.7
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	53.8	0.5	53.7	0.6	49.8	2.3	53.9	4.7	56.7	2.6
	100–299	45.2	0.4	46.0	0.4	39.9	1.1	49.3	1.8	41.9	1.3
	300–499	39.3	0.4	38.8	0.5	41.1	1.2	43.8	3.6	39.7	1.8
	500 or more	42.2	0.5	42.8	0.6	40.8	1.3	53.6	4.6	37.9	1.8

^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 8_2_7-2a: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_7-2a.html