Table 8_3_2-1

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_3_2.1
Asthma admissions (excluding patients with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system, obstetric admissions, and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
		2006		2000
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		124.0	4.3	112.3	3.3
Age	18–44	75.7	3.1	91.4	3.0
	45–64	152.3	5.8	127.1	4.1
	65 and over	222.1	7.9	151.9	5.0
	65–69	192.9	7.5	129.9	5.3
	70–74	212.0	9.0	148.7	5.2
	75–79	232.4	8.7	158.5	6.1
	80–84	263.7	10.3	177.6	7.9
	85 and over	245.4	11.2	180.2	7.9
Gender	Male	73.8	2.7	63.3	2.2
Gender	Female	169.3	6.0	158.1	4.5
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	198.7	12.5	191.2	11.5
	Second quartile	125.4	6.2	120.0	5.3
	Third quartile	99.2	4.6	95.1	4.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	81.8	5.9	69.8	4.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	162.7	15.1	144.6	12.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	107.5	9.2	109.7	8.6
	Medium metropolitan	108.3	11.6	79.1	9.1
	Small metropolitan	95.4	11.4	89.2	10.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	118.8	8.0	107.2	9.2
	Noncore (nonmetro)	121.0	8.6	117.3	8.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	170.5	15.3	149.3	11.7
	Midwest	123.6	7.8	104.6	6.4
	South	128.4	7.0	113.4	4.2
	West	77.6	4.1	85.6	4.9

^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_3_2-1: 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_3_2-1.html