Table 12_3_8-1

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_8.1
Failure to rescue, or deaths per 1,000 discharges having developed specified complications of care during hospitalization, ages 18-74,^a United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		105.7	0.3	114.0	0.3	120.4	0.3	128.9	0.3	153.4	0.4
Age	18-44	71.0	0.5	72.1	0.5	78.6	0.6	80.6	0.6	98.7	0.6
	45-64	107.0	0.4	115.3	0.4	121.5	0.4	129.4	0.5	153.9	0.5
	65-74	124.0	0.5	136.0	0.5	142.7	0.5	155.5	0.6	183.9	0.6
Gender	Male	112.1	0.4	121.9	0.4	128.3	0.4	137.6	0.4	164.9	0.5
Gender	Female	99.8	0.4	105.5	0.4	112.5	0.4	119.9	0.4	142.7	0.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	107.7	0.4	116.2	0.5	121.9	0.5	130.5	0.5	152.1	0.7
	Second quartile	106.5	0.5	114.3	0.5	120.3	0.6	127.9	0.6	153.8	0.7
	Third quartile	103.8	0.5	111.5	0.6	117.5	0.6	128.9	0.7	157.3	0.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	103.2	0.6	113.1	0.6	122.1	0.6	127.8	0.7	151.0	0.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	107.0	0.4	115.7	0.5	121.6	0.5	135.3	0.5	156.2	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	100.6	0.5	110.9	0.6	118.9	0.6	124.5	0.6	152.2	0.7
	Medium metropolitan	107.1	0.6	112.7	0.6	119.5	0.6	128.3	0.7	156.5	0.9
	Small metropolitan	106.1	0.9	117.7	1.0	118.0	1.0	124.5	1.0	155.7	1.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	110.0	0.8	117.5	0.9	125.6	0.9	126.6	1.0	146.8	1.2
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	105.7	1.1	109.2	1.1	118.1	1.1	123.3	1.2	142.3	1.4
Expected payment source	Private	101.8	0.5	108.4	0.5	115.9	0.6	120.8	0.6	144.9	0.6
	Medicare	103.3	0.4	112.6	0.4	119.3	0.4	129.5	0.4	155.7	0.5
	Medicaid	110.3	0.7	120.1	0.7	122.9	0.7	134.9	0.8	157.1	1.0
	Other	114.9	1.4	112.8	1.5	127.0	1.8	129.5	1.7	141.3	2.2
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	126.8	1.1	136.2	1.1	142.7	1.2	149.0	1.3	179.5	1.6
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	115.1	0.6	129.5	0.6	136.6	0.7	148.8	0.7	159.6	0.8
	Midwest	88.8	0.5	100.3	0.6	106.2	0.6	114.1	0.6	146.0	0.8
	South	105.5	0.4	111.0	0.4	117.2	0.4	122.3	0.5	149.4	0.6
	West	117.2	0.6	120.8	0.6	128.0	0.7	143.6	0.7	164.4	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	102.7	0.3	112.6	0.3	117.9	0.3	128.5	0.4	152.3	0.4
	Private, for profit	113.7	0.7	122.4	0.8	126.2	0.8	126.2	0.9	151.0	1.0
	Public	113.2	0.7	113.8	0.7	126.7	0.7	133.8	0.8	161.9	1.0
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	104.8	0.4	112.4	0.4	118.5	0.5	134.3	0.5	151.7	0.6
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	106.2	0.3	115.0	0.3	121.5	0.4	126.0	0.4	154.4	0.4
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	105.5	0.4	113.9	0.4	118.8	0.4	133.4	0.5	154.3	0.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	103.0	0.6	111.8	0.7	122.6	0.7	125.6	0.7	153.8	0.8
	Medium metropolitan	106.9	0.6	113.9	0.6	119.5	0.6	127.3	0.7	156.9	0.8
	Small metropolitan	107.6	0.8	117.2	0.9	122.2	1.0	126.2	0.9	156.2	1.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	107.5	0.9	119.8	1.0	128.0	1.0	123.3	1.1	144.5	1.4
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	104.1	2.0	100.1	2.0	111.5	2.0	123.9	2.0	126.4	2.2
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	101.3	1.0	101.1	1.0	115.5	1.0	119.8	1.1	138.5	1.2
	100-299	108.3	0.4	118.2	0.5	125.5	0.5	132.6	0.5	154.0	0.6
	300-499	104.3	0.4	112.3	0.5	116.1	0.5	121.7	0.5	158.7	0.6
	500 or more	104.9	0.5	114.1	0.5	119.5	0.6	135.4	0.6	150.7	0.7

^aExcludes patients transferred in or out and patients admitted from long-term care facilities. 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: 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_8-1: 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_8-1.html