Table 12_2_8-2

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_8.2
Postoperative hip fracture per 1,000 surgical patients who were not susceptible to falling, 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		0.28	0.01	0.30	0.01	0.21	0.02	0.20	0.05	0.21	0.03
Age	18-44	0.05	0.01	0.06	0.01	0.08	0.01	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	45-64	0.16	0.01	0.18	0.01	0.10	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.12	0.03
	65 and over	0.59	0.02	0.65	0.02	0.36	0.05	0.44	0.12	0.39	0.06
	65-69	0.23	0.02	0.27	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	70-74	0.33	0.02	0.33	0.03	0.38	0.07	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	75-79	0.60	0.04	0.62	0.04	0.53	0.13	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	80-84	0.58	0.05	0.64	0.05	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	85 and over	1.96	0.09	2.11	0.11	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	1.42	0.41
Gender	Male	0.32	0.01	0.35	0.01	0.24	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.20	0.03
Gender	Female	0.30	0.01	0.37	0.01	0.12	0.02	0.25	0.07	0.11	0.03
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	0.28	0.01	0.31	0.02	0.21	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.19	0.04
	Second quartile	0.34	0.02	0.35	0.02	0.26	0.05	DSU	DSU	0.26	0.06
	Third quartile	0.26	0.02	0.29	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	0.26	0.02	0.27	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	0.26	0.08
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	0.28	0.01	0.31	0.02	0.25	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.24	0.04
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.28	0.01	0.30	0.02	0.19	0.05	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medium metropolitan	0.32	0.02	0.34	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.59	0.15	DSU	DSU
	Small metropolitan	0.25	0.02	0.27	0.03	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	0.29	0.02	0.30	0.03	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	0.28	0.03	0.28	0.03	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Expected payment source	Private	0.27	0.02	0.29	0.02	0.32	0.07	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medicare	0.29	0.01	0.30	0.01	0.20	0.02	0.23	0.06	0.24	0.03
	Medicaid	0.37	0.04	0.60	0.07	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Other	0.23	0.07	0.26	0.08	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	0.21	0.06	0.27	0.08	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	0.33	0.02	0.33	0.02	0.32	0.06	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Midwest	0.27	0.01	0.28	0.02	0.20	0.04	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	South	0.28	0.01	0.30	0.01	0.19	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.22	0.04
	West	0.29	0.02	0.31	0.02	DSU	DSU	0.22	0.07	0.20	0.05
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	0.29	0.01	0.31	0.01	0.21	0.03	0.23	0.06	0.20	0.04
	Private, for profit	0.27	0.02	0.30	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	0.26	0.06
	Public	0.28	0.02	0.28	0.03	0.28	0.06	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	0.30	0.01	0.32	0.02	0.24	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.23	0.05
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	0.28	0.01	0.30	0.01	0.19	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.20	0.04
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	0.27	0.01	0.30	0.02	0.25	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.22	0.04
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.28	0.02	0.30	0.02	0.18	0.05	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medium metropolitan	0.30	0.02	0.33	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Small metropolitan	0.29	0.02	0.29	0.02	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	0.32	0.03	0.32	0.03	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	0.26	0.03	0.29	0.03	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	100-299	0.28	0.01	0.29	0.01	0.19	0.04	DSU	DSU	0.21	0.05
	300-499	0.26	0.01	0.28	0.02	0.18	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.20	0.05
	500 or more	0.34	0.02	0.35	0.02	0.28	0.04	DSU	DSU	0.29	0.05

^a Excludes patients with musculoskeletal disease; those admitted for seizures, syncope, stroke, coma, cardiac arrest, poisoning, trauma, delirium, psychoses, or anoxic brain injury; and patients with metastatic cancer, lymphoid malignancy, bone malignancy, and self-inflicted injury.� Also excludes obstetric admissions.� 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

Internet Citation: Table 12_2_8-2: 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_8-2.html