Table 12_2_10-3

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_2_10.3
Foreign body accidentally left in during procedure per 1,000 medical and surgical discharges or obstetric admissions, 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		0.09	0.00	0.09	0.00	0.09	0.01	0.06	0.01	0.08	0.01
Age	18-44	0.07	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	45-64	0.12	0.01	0.12	0.01	0.12	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.02
	65 and over	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.02
	65-69	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	70-74	0.11	0.01	0.10	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	0.17	0.05
	75-79	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	80-84	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	85 and over	0.05	0.01	0.05	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.01
Gender	Female	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.02	0.07	0.01
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.08	0.01
	Second quartile	0.10	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.13	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.02
	Third quartile	0.09	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.07	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.07	0.02
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.10	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.02
	Medium metropolitan	0.11	0.01	0.12	0.01	0.11	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.11	0.02
	Small metropolitan	0.09	0.01	0.09	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Expected payment source	Private	0.10	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.10	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.02
	Medicare	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.09	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.02
	Medicaid	0.07	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	Other	0.10	0.02	0.13	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.11	0.03	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.08	0.02
	Midwest	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	South	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.08	0.01
	West	0.10	0.01	0.12	0.01	0.11	0.03	0.07	0.02	0.07	0.01
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	0.09	0.00	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.06	0.02	0.09	0.01
	Private, for profit	0.08	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.08	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	Public	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.08	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.02
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	0.11	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.10	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.09	0.01
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.02	0.07	0.01
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	0.10	0.01	0.12	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.05	0.02	0.06	0.01
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	0.09	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medium metropolitan	0.11	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.12	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.13	0.02
	Small metropolitan	0.09	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.07	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	0.06	0.01	0.06	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	0.03	0.01	0.03	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	0.07	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	100-299	0.07	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.07	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.06	0.01
	300-499	0.10	0.01	0.10	0.01	0.11	0.01	DSU	DSU	0.08	0.02
	500 or more	0.11	0.01	0.11	0.01	0.11	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.10	0.02

^a Also excludes admissions specifically for treatment of foreign body left, such as cases from earlier admissions or from other hospitals.

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

Internet Citation: Table 12_2_10-3: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/12_patientsafety/T12_2_10-3.html