Table 12_2_6-2

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_6.2
Postoperative respiratory failure per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges with an operating room procedure, under age 18,^a United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		18.9	0.3	19.0	0.3	17.6	0.2	18.6	0.3	19.0	0.3
Age	0-4	27.9	0.5	27.4	0.7	29.1	0.5	28.4	0.6	29.1	0.7
	5-9	12.7	0.6	12.4	0.6	12.7	0.5	14.5	0.6	15.5	0.6
	10-14	21.3	0.7	19.7	0.7	11.8	0.5	16.8	0.6	15.0	0.6
	15-17	10.6	0.5	12.2	0.5	9.5	0.4	8.5	0.5	10.0	0.5
Gender	Male	20.2	0.4	21.4	0.5	20.0	0.3	19.9	0.4	20.0	0.5
Gender	Female	19.7	0.4	17.4	0.5	15.6	0.3	17.4	0.4	17.1	0.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	19.5	0.5	23.5	0.7	20.2	0.5	19.2	0.6	18.6	0.7
	Second quartile	19.4	0.5	17.8	0.6	18.7	0.5	19.4	0.6	19.1	0.7
	Third quartile	21.9	0.5	18.6	0.7	16.8	0.4	18.9	0.6	19.5	0.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	14.4	0.6	16.8	0.6	15.7	0.5	16.8	0.6	18.7	0.7
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	14.5	0.5	19.4	0.6	16.1	0.4	19.6	0.5	18.2	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	21.5	0.5	16.2	0.7	17.3	0.5	14.6	0.7	20.9	0.7
	Medium metropolitan	20.1	0.7	21.2	0.7	19.1	0.6	18.5	0.7	17.2	0.8
	Small metropolitan	18.5	0.9	16.0	1.1	21.4	0.7	15.3	0.9	22.9	1.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	21.6	0.9	21.0	1.0	17.5	0.7	25.8	0.9	17.0	1.2
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	18.8	1.1	21.3	1.4	15.8	1.0	20.1	1.1	17.0	1.5
Expected payment source	Private	17.3	0.4	17.9	0.5	16.2	0.3	17.3	0.4	17.8	0.4
	Medicare	15.1	3.0	33.9	5.6	28.3	2.8	35.3	4.0	35.6	4.7
	Medicaid	20.1	0.4	19.8	0.5	19.5	0.4	19.4	0.5	21.5	0.6
	Other	20.8	1.3	22.2	1.6	15.4	1.0	21.5	1.6	13.3	1.7
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	25.5	2.4	23.2	2.6	17.6	1.7	24.2	1.6	16.3	2.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	16.0	0.9	17.8	0.7	18.6	0.6	18.5	0.7	14.9	0.9
	Midwest	18.4	0.6	21.0	0.7	11.8	0.6	20.6	0.6	18.6	0.7
	South	21.1	0.4	21.3	0.6	21.9	0.4	17.7	0.5	18.6	0.7
	West	13.0	0.8	14.4	0.7	14.5	0.5	18.0	0.7	21.3	0.6
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	19.2	0.3	18.0	0.4	17.2	0.3	17.7	0.4	19.1	0.4
	Private, for profit	14.6	1.0	20.9	0.9	21.6	1.3	18.6	0.9	11.3	1.8
	Public	20.3	0.8	22.6	0.9	20.6	0.8	23.2	0.8	20.2	1.0
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	19.8	0.3	19.0	0.4	17.8	0.3	18.7	0.4	18.9	0.5
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	15.6	0.6	19.0	0.6	17.3	0.4	18.5	0.6	19.2	0.5
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	15.1	0.4	18.5	0.4	14.9	0.3	19.2	0.4	20.1	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	22.4	0.4	16.7	1.5	29.5	0.6	15.5	1.2	15.6	1.2
	Medium metropolitan	23.8	0.9	22.6	0.8	18.6	0.6	20.4	0.7	18.2	0.9
	Small metropolitan	16.9	1.3	18.6	1.6	14.7	1.3	16.0	1.0	17.6	1.6
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	20.6	1.8	10.0	2.3	DSU	DSU	12.4	1.9	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	DSU	DSU	24.0	5.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	DSU	DSU	22.6	2.0	7.5	1.1	28.3	1.6	DSU	DSU
	100-299	15.4	0.6	16.2	0.6	16.2	0.4	17.4	0.6	23.7	0.5
	300-499	22.3	0.4	19.0	0.6	20.6	0.4	17.9	0.6	15.3	0.7
	500 or more	17.8	0.5	21.1	0.5	17.2	0.5	19.1	0.5	18.5	0.6

^aExcludes patients with respiratory disease, circulatory disease, neuromuscular disorders, neonates with a birth weight less than 500 grams, and admissions specifically for acute respiratory failure. Rates are adjusted by age, gender, diagnosis-related goup and major diagnostic category groups, and comorbidities, and stratified by the Risk Adjusted Classification for Congenital Heart Surgery.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

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 February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 12_2_6-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/12_patientsafety/T12_2_6-2.html