Table 8_3_2-5a

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_2.5a
Pediatric asthma admissions (excluding patients with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, ages 2–17, 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		155.1	9.8	97.7	4.7	380.9	40.0	65.7	8.1	155.8	16.1
Age	2–4	329.7	20.3	235.0	12.3	679.5	71.3	174.4	21.6	324.0	33.7
	5–9	185.2	12.1	109.2	5.5	470.1	49.6	82.2	11.6	192.8	20.5
	10–14	88.2	6.3	48.4	2.4	257.5	29.0	22.4	3.7	88.2	10.1
	15–17	51.0	3.3	31.0	1.6	154.4	17.6	7.8	2.1	47.5	5.5
Gender	Male	186.1	12.0	116.4	5.6	464.2	49.6	82.6	10.5	182.7	19.2
Gender	Female	122.5	7.7	78.1	4.0	293.5	30.3	48.1	6.4	127.6	13.2
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	250.4	22.2	137.3	7.4	451.7	57.3	82.8	13.6	219.9	31.0
	Second quartile	144.4	8.8	98.3	5.2	341.0	34.4	74.3	13.4	128.8	12.5
	Third quartile	121.9	8.5	90.3	5.5	309.6	34.7	65.3	12.2	116.4	13.1
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	100.4	8.4	82.3	6.9	283.8	40.2	57.4	8.3	100.1	10.7
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	204.4	25.9	92.1	11.9	473.3	80.8	69.5	10.9	175.3	28.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	135.6	14.9	97.7	9.7	344.8	57.4	47.6	8.2	117.1	15.6
	Medium metropolitan	143.1	16.8	96.9	10.2	315.9	49.2	DSU	DSU	165.9	35.7
	Small metropolitan	112.2	13.1	89.7	9.6	235.3	40.9	DSU	DSU	126.4	33.6
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	129.3	8.1	108.5	6.6	284.9	39.2	DSU	DSU	111.4	17.4
	Noncore (nonmetro)	128.7	7.1	108.5	6.2	299.5	34.5	DSU	DSU	132.6	23.1
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	219.1	25.8	111.4	12.7	568.5	88.2	84.8	21.4	351.5	83.9
	Midwest	145.4	25.3	95.2	9.5	DSU	DSU	25.9	5.5	58.5	12.2
	South	163.9	17.0	103.3	7.7	298.0	43.4	61.2	14.6	172.7	29.5
	West	105.6	11.3	78.2	8.9	340.7	52.6	71.2	13.3	108.0	15.7

^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.

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_3_2-5a: 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_2-5a.html