Table 12_3_2-5

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_2.5
Accidental puncture or laceration during procedure^a per 1,000 discharges, age less than 18 years, 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		0.84	0.02	0.85	0.02	0.77	0.04	0.97	0.08	0.75	0.03
Age	0-4	0.71	0.02	0.73	0.02	0.67	0.04	0.77	0.09	0.60	0.04
	5-9	0.83	0.05	0.82	0.06	0.91	0.13	0.97	0.29	0.77	0.11
	10-14	1.22	0.05	1.20	0.07	1.24	0.14	1.76	0.31	1.10	0.12
	15-17	1.20	0.05	1.23	0.07	0.73	0.14	1.58	0.33	1.33	0.13
Gender	Male	0.90	0.02	0.92	0.03	0.82	0.06	1.13	0.12	0.77	0.05
Gender	Female	0.73	0.02	0.77	0.03	0.70	0.06	0.62	0.11	0.65	0.04
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	0.75	0.03	0.83	0.05	0.75	0.06	DSU	DSU	0.56	0.05
	Second quartile	0.88	0.03	0.91	0.04	0.72	0.08	0.69	0.20	1.01	0.07
	Third quartile	0.84	0.03	0.80	0.04	0.82	0.09	1.17	0.17	0.78	0.07
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	0.89	0.03	0.87	0.04	0.85	0.12	1.10	0.13	0.75	0.09
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	0.81	0.03	0.77	0.05	0.87	0.06	0.82	0.12	0.78	0.05
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.77	0.03	0.83	0.04	0.58	0.08	1.08	0.19	0.48	0.08
	Medium metropolitan	0.89	0.04	0.88	0.05	0.72	0.11	1.48	0.20	0.73	0.08
	Small metropolitan	0.89	0.05	0.89	0.06	0.85	0.15	DSU	DSU	1.22	0.15
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	0.92	0.05	0.93	0.06	0.92	0.20	DSU	DSU	0.72	0.17
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	0.88	0.06	0.92	0.07	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	0.98	0.24
Expected payment source	Private	0.87	0.02	0.90	0.03	0.78	0.07	0.82	0.11	0.73	0.06
	Medicare	1.39	0.26	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	3.40	0.62
	Medicaid	0.80	0.02	0.79	0.04	0.78	0.05	1.01	0.15	0.74	0.04
	Other	0.80	0.07	0.68	0.10	0.84	0.16	2.75	0.38	0.69	0.12
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	0.74	0.09	0.65	0.14	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	0.85	0.16
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	0.76	0.04	0.72	0.05	0.79	0.10	0.67	0.19	0.73	0.08
	Midwest	0.98	0.03	1.03	0.04	0.84	0.08	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	South	0.74	0.03	0.79	0.04	0.69	0.06	0.91	0.21	0.62	0.06
	West	0.90	0.03	0.78	0.05	0.94	0.13	1.12	0.12	0.86	0.05
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	0.85	0.02	0.87	0.02	0.78	0.05	0.96	0.09	0.74	0.04
	Private, for profit	0.69	0.06	0.84	0.08	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	0.62	0.12
	Public	0.85	0.04	0.74	0.06	0.88	0.10	1.08	0.25	0.85	0.08
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	0.85	0.02	0.83	0.03	0.83	0.05	1.03	0.10	0.78	0.04
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	0.80	0.03	0.88	0.03	0.64	0.07	0.81	0.16	0.67	0.06
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	0.87	0.02	0.88	0.03	0.84	0.05	0.92	0.10	0.74	0.04
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.59	0.04	0.62	0.05	0.47	0.09	DSU	DSU	0.63	0.10
	Medium metropolitan	0.89	0.04	0.88	0.04	0.64	0.11	1.57	0.21	0.84	0.10
	Small metropolitan	1.01	0.07	0.99	0.08	1.14	0.17	DSU	DSU	1.13	0.20
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	0.82	0.09	0.91	0.11	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	1.19	0.18	0.99	0.21	1.92	0.54	DSU	DSU	2.65	0.65
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	1.00	0.09	1.02	0.10	1.91	0.33	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	100-299	0.93	0.03	1.00	0.04	0.89	0.07	1.07	0.13	0.76	0.05
	300-499	0.71	0.03	0.74	0.04	0.56	0.07	0.95	0.18	0.71	0.07
	500 or more	0.82	0.03	0.78	0.03	0.79	0.06	0.82	0.15	0.76	0.06

^a Excludes obstetric admissions, normal newborns, and neonates with a birth weight less than 500 grams.� Rates are adjusted by age, gender, diagnosis-related group and major diagnostic category groups, and comorbidities, and stratified by six clinical categories and seven procedure types (distinguishing minor and major procedures and quantity).

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.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 12_3_2-5: 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_2-5.html