Table 12_3_2-3

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_3_2.3
Accidental puncture or laceration during procedure per 100,000 population, age 18 and over,^a United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		48.4	1.8	48.1	1.9	48.5	1.9	47.6	1.9	45.0	1.9
Age	18-44	18.4	0.7	19.1	0.8	19.5	0.9	19.4	0.8	18.7	0.8
	45-64	56.6	2.2	56.3	2.4	56.2	2.4	55.2	2.4	50.7	2.4
	65 and over	131.3	5.3	126.7	5.5	128.8	5.5	125.9	5.2	120.5	5.5
	65-69	114.5	5.2	105.4	5.0	110.7	5.3	110.9	5.0	95.1	4.5
	70-74	132.7	6.2	131.4	6.1	126.3	6.0	124.8	5.9	119.3	6.1
	75-79	152.0	6.7	151.2	7.2	151.5	7.2	147.0	6.7	144.5	7.1
	80-84	153.3	7.4	146.6	7.6	157.1	7.4	142.8	6.6	146.3	8.1
	85 and over	115.3	5.7	112.9	5.8	110.5	5.4	112.5	5.5	121.0	6.3
Gender	Male	42.1	1.8	40.4	1.8	40.8	1.8	39.5	1.8	38.3	1.8
Gender	Female	55.1	2.0	55.9	2.1	56.4	2.2	55.8	2.1	52.0	2.0
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	47.0	2.7	46.4	2.4	47.6	2.5	45.1	2.3	51.9	3.1
	Second quartile	49.7	2.3	52.0	2.5	49.0	2.5	48.8	2.4	49.8	2.6
	Third quartile	49.3	2.5	48.2	2.5	51.4	2.8	49.3	2.7	45.4	2.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	48.6	3.7	46.7	3.5	46.8	3.2	48.1	3.5	35.9	2.6
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	45.4	4.0	42.2	3.6	46.5	3.8	41.6	3.6	39.4	3.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	46.4	4.0	43.6	3.8	46.1	3.8	47.5	4.4	47.9	4.2
	Medium metropolitan	51.1	5.3	52.5	5.5	49.2	4.7	46.8	4.7	44.0	5.4
	Small metropolitan	52.1	5.9	53.1	5.4	49.6	5.9	51.8	6.3	49.9	5.6
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	52.9	4.8	55.9	4.6	53.6	4.6	57.3	5.5	45.8	3.8
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	48.4	3.6	56.5	4.6	54.4	4.5	54.3	4.6	52.7	4.7
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	44.7	4.6	39.7	4.6	40.1	3.9	43.9	5.5	40.3	4.7
	Midwest	50.3	3.5	50.6	4.5	57.0	5.1	48.8	3.5	48.3	4.4
	South	48.1	3.1	48.9	2.8	44.9	2.8	47.1	2.5	46.1	2.9
	West	50.6	3.4	51.8	3.7	53.5	4.2	50.5	4.2	43.7	3.3

^a Includes admissions specifically for such problems, such as cases from earlier admissions or from other hospitals. Excludes obstetric admissions. 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.

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_3_2-3: 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_3_2-3.html