Table 12_1_6-3

2010 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 12_1_6.3
Selected infections due to medical care or obstetric admissions per 1,000 medical and surgical discharges, age 18 and over,^a by race/ethnicity, United States, 2007
				Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		2.2	0.0	2.1	0.0	2.7	0.0	2.3	0.1	2.0	0.0
Age	18-44	1.5	0.0	1.4	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.9	0.1	1.0	0.0
	45-64	2.9	0.0	2.8	0.0	3.3	0.1	2.3	0.2	2.5	0.1
	65 and over	2.5	0.0	2.4	0.0	3.1	0.1	3.2	0.1	2.6	0.1
Age	65-69	2.9	0.0	2.8	0.1	3.6	0.1	3.3	0.3	2.9	0.2
	70-74	3.1	0.0	3.0	0.1	4.0	0.1	3.1	0.3	3.1	0.2
	75-79	2.7	0.0	2.5	0.0	2.9	0.1	3.8	0.3	2.8	0.1
	80-84	2.8	0.0	2.7	0.0	3.3	0.1	3.5	0.3	2.8	0.2
	85 and over	1.4	0.0	1.3	0.0	1.7	0.1	2.2	0.2	1.5	0.1
Gender	Male	3.0	0.0	2.9	0.0	3.4	0.0	3.1	0.1	2.8	0.1
Gender	Female	1.8	0.0	1.8	0.0	2.2	0.0	1.4	0.1	1.2	0.0
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	2.1	0.0	1.9	0.0	2.6	0.0	2.3	0.2	1.8	0.1
	Second quartile	2.2	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.7	0.1	2.4	0.2	2.2	0.1
	Third quartile	2.3	0.0	2.2	0.0	2.8	0.1	2.5	0.2	2.3	0.1
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	2.3	0.0	2.3	0.0	3.0	0.1	2.0	0.1	2.1	0.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	2.6	0.0	2.5	0.0	2.9	0.0	2.4	0.1	2.2	0.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	2.3	0.0	2.3	0.0	2.8	0.1	2.4	0.2	2.0	0.1
	Medium metropolitan	2.1	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.5	0.1	1.6	0.2	1.9	0.1
	Small metropolitan	2.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.6	0.1	2.9	0.4	1.7	0.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	1.7	0.0	1.7	0.0	1.8	0.1	1.7	0.3	1.6	0.1
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	1.6	0.0	1.6	0.0	1.5	0.1	DSU	DSU	1.1	0.2
Expected payment source	Private	2.0	0.0	1.9	0.0	2.4	0.1	2.0	0.1	1.7	0.1
	Medicare	2.3	0.0	2.2	0.0	3.0	0.0	2.8	0.1	2.3	0.1
	Medicaid	2.7	0.0	2.7	0.0	3.1	0.1	1.8	0.2	2.2	0.1
	Other	2.1	0.1	2.1	0.1	2.3	0.1	2.3	0.4	1.6	0.1
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	1.5	0.0	1.4	0.1	1.6	0.1	1.1	0.3	1.6	0.1
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	2.2	0.0	2.2	0.0	2.4	0.1	1.4	0.2	1.9	0.1
	Midwest	2.2	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.9	0.0	2.2	0.3	1.6	0.2
	South	2.2	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.7	0.0	2.5	0.2	1.9	0.1
	West	2.4	0.0	2.4	0.0	2.9	0.1	2.5	0.1	2.2	0.1
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not-for-profit	2.1	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.6	0.0	2.1	0.1	1.9	0.0
	Private, for-profit	2.7	0.0	2.5	0.0	3.4	0.1	3.8	0.2	2.2	0.1
	Public	2.1	0.0	2.0	0.0	2.4	0.1	1.9	0.2	2.2	0.1
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	2.6	0.0	2.6	0.0	2.8	0.0	1.8	0.1	2.3	0.1
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	2.0	0.0	1.9	0.0	2.6	0.0	2.5	0.1	1.8	0.0
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	2.7	0.0	2.6	0.0	3.1	0.0	2.4	0.1	2.2	0.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	2.3	0.0	2.2	0.0	2.6	0.1	2.5	0.2	2.1	0.1
	Medium metropolitan	2.1	0.0	2.1	0.0	2.6	0.1	1.6	0.2	1.8	0.1
	Small metropolitan	2.0	0.0	1.9	0.0	2.5	0.1	2.6	0.4	1.4	0.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	1.3	0.0	1.3	0.0	1.1	0.1	1.8	0.3	1.3	0.2
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	0.6	0.1	0.6	0.1	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	1.7	0.0	1.5	0.0	2.9	0.1	2.9	0.3	2.2	0.1
	100-299	1.9	0.0	1.9	0.0	2.3	0.0	2.2	0.1	1.8	0.1
	300-499	2.3	0.0	2.2	0.0	2.7	0.0	2.1	0.1	1.9	0.1
	500 or more	2.7	0.0	2.7	0.0	3.0	0.0	2.4	0.2	2.3	0.1

^a Excluding immunocompromised and cancer patients and stays under 2 days. Also excludes admissions specifically for such infections, such as cases from earlier admissions, from other hospitals, or from other settings. Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, and diagnosis-related group (DRG) clusters.� When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, comorbidities, and DRG clusters; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, comorbidities, and DRG clusters.

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, 2007, 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 26 States: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Page last reviewed October 2014

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