Table 12_3_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_3_6.2
Decubitus ulcers per 1,000 discharges with a length of stay of 5 or more days, 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		25.4	0.0	23.6	0.1	33.3	0.1	22.6	0.3	25.4	0.2
Age	18-44	6.3	0.1	5.9	0.1	7.2	0.1	5.1	0.4	5.4	0.2
	45-64	16.9	0.1	17.0	0.1	17.5	0.1	12.5	0.5	14.4	0.2
	65 and over	36.3	0.1	33.8	0.1	48.6	0.2	33.4	0.5	36.7	0.3
	65-69	26.3	0.2	25.3	0.2	30.9	0.4	21.5	1.1	24.7	0.5
	70-74	26.4	0.1	24.6	0.2	33.4	0.4	25.5	1.0	26.4	0.5
	75-79	35.5	0.2	32.3	0.2	50.7	0.4	31.3	1.1	38.4	0.6
	80-84	34.6	0.2	31.6	0.2	52.6	0.5	36.0	1.1	36.1	0.6
	85 and over	52.0	0.2	47.3	0.2	80.2	0.5	47.4	1.2	59.0	0.8
Gender	Male	25.0	0.1	26.0	0.1	23.0	0.1	22.6	0.5	19.8	0.2
Gender	Female	26.7	0.1	25.8	0.1	29.6	0.1	23.8	0.4	23.0	0.2
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	26.1	0.1	23.3	0.1	32.5	0.2	24.8	0.7	25.3	0.2
	Second quartile	24.3	0.1	22.5	0.1	32.7	0.3	23.8	0.7	25.2	0.4
	Third quartile	25.0	0.1	23.4	0.1	36.0	0.3	22.6	0.6	26.1	0.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	26.0	0.1	25.3	0.1	34.6	0.4	20.5	0.5	25.4	0.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	31.4	0.1	30.0	0.1	37.3	0.2	25.6	0.4	27.2	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	24.9	0.1	23.7	0.1	32.4	0.2	20.4	0.8	23.1	0.5
	Medium metropolitan	23.5	0.1	22.7	0.1	27.8	0.3	17.1	0.9	25.8	0.4
	Small metropolitan	20.3	0.2	19.6	0.2	25.0	0.4	13.2	2.2	20.2	0.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	20.5	0.1	19.3	0.2	30.1	0.4	13.6	1.4	22.7	0.7
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	20.5	0.2	19.7	0.2	27.9	0.5	16.5	3.1	15.8	1.0
Expected payment source	Private	21.3	0.1	21.0	0.2	23.9	0.3	18.2	0.9	19.5	0.5
	Medicare	25.8	0.1	23.7	0.1	35.2	0.1	23.6	0.4	27.4	0.2
	Medicaid	33.4	0.2	35.3	0.3	37.0	0.4	23.4	0.9	26.9	0.4
	Other	21.1	0.4	20.5	0.5	23.8	0.9	11.1	2.9	19.6	1.1
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	18.2	0.3	20.2	0.4	18.6	0.7	16.4	2.2	12.9	0.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	29.9	0.1	27.8	0.1	41.4	0.3	31.5	0.7	29.4	0.4
	Midwest	22.7	0.1	20.8	0.1	32.6	0.2	17.2	1.5	16.6	0.9
	South	23.6	0.1	21.7	0.1	30.1	0.2	17.9	0.8	24.1	0.3
	West	28.0	0.1	28.1	0.1	40.3	0.4	21.2	0.4	25.3	0.3
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	25.3	0.1	23.5	0.1	33.7	0.1	23.2	0.4	25.8	0.2
	Private, for profit	25.2	0.1	23.8	0.1	32.0	0.3	20.4	0.8	24.5	0.3
	Public	26.0	0.1	24.3	0.2	32.4	0.3	21.8	0.9	25.5	0.4
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	30.9	0.1	28.9	0.1	36.7	0.2	27.8	0.5	28.8	0.3
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	23.2	0.1	21.9	0.1	30.9	0.1	19.8	0.4	23.9	0.2
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	30.4	0.1	28.7	0.1	37.1	0.2	25.8	0.4	26.9	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	25.2	0.1	23.9	0.1	32.3	0.2	19.2	0.8	23.8	0.5
	Medium metropolitan	23.4	0.1	22.6	0.1	27.9	0.3	16.3	0.8	25.7	0.4
	Small metropolitan	20.0	0.1	19.2	0.2	24.8	0.4	11.8	2.2	19.4	0.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	20.0	0.1	18.8	0.2	30.5	0.5	13.5	1.4	19.2	0.9
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	21.3	0.2	20.3	0.3	31.1	0.7	17.7	3.5	14.2	1.4
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	21.9	0.1	20.9	0.1	31.9	0.5	18.4	1.2	22.9	0.7
	100-299	24.6	0.1	23.0	0.1	33.5	0.2	21.0	0.4	25.8	0.3
	300-499	26.1	0.1	24.1	0.1	33.2	0.2	25.4	0.6	25.0	0.3
	500 or more	27.8	0.1	26.3	0.1	33.3	0.2	24.4	0.7	25.9	0.3

^aExcludes transfers; patients admitted from long-term care facilities; patients with diseases of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and breast; and obstetric admissions).� Also excludes admissions specifically for such problems, such as cases from earlier admissions or from other hospitals. 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.

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_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_3_6-2.html