Table 12_3_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_3_8.2
Failure to rescue, or deaths per 1,000 discharges having developed specified complications of care during hospitalization, ages 18-74,^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		111.0	0.3	111.3	0.3	105.0	0.5	130.2	1.7	115.7	0.8
Age	18-44	71.7	0.5	71.1	0.7	68.4	0.9	82.3	3.3	77.0	1.3
	45-64	112.8	0.4	113.5	0.5	105.4	0.8	135.3	2.6	118.7	1.2
	65-74	131.2	0.5	132.4	0.6	122.5	1.1	151.7	3.0	130.8	1.7
Gender	Male	117.3	0.4	120.5	0.5	104.3	0.8	143.1	2.4	117.3	1.1
Gender	Female	104.7	0.4	107.3	0.5	96.6	0.7	117.8	2.5	103.5	1.2
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	114.7	0.4	118.8	0.6	107.4	0.7	140.9	3.7	116.1	1.2
	Second quartile	111.5	0.5	112.2	0.7	102.7	1.2	128.6	4.1	119.7	1.8
	Third quartile	108.3	0.6	108.1	0.6	99.7	1.5	126.6	3.4	115.6	1.9
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	107.0	0.6	105.7	0.7	104.3	1.8	127.0	2.9	107.2	2.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	113.3	0.4	115.8	0.7	104.4	0.8	132.4	2.2	117.8	1.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	104.0	0.5	105.2	0.6	97.5	1.2	116.3	3.9	105.2	2.2
	Medium metropolitan	113.6	0.6	113.2	0.8	110.2	1.7	136.5	4.6	115.5	1.9
	Small metropolitan	109.5	0.9	107.8	1.0	108.1	2.2	133.4	10.8	131.5	4.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	116.4	0.9	115.5	1.0	117.8	2.5	156.4	8.9	112.6	4.0
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	114.8	1.0	114.1	1.2	123.7	3.0	64.1	17.6	108.5	5.6
Expected payment source	Private	105.7	0.5	104.8	0.6	104.0	1.2	124.8	3.3	110.0	1.9
	Medicare	109.6	0.4	110.6	0.4	103.6	0.8	128.7	2.7	110.7	1.3
	Medicaid	116.2	0.7	120.6	1.1	104.5	1.2	133.6	3.6	124.1	1.6
	Other	115.8	1.5	121.3	1.9	105.5	3.2	116.1	11.5	106.9	4.0
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	130.8	1.1	135.1	1.5	119.5	2.1	160.4	7.2	127.5	2.5
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	117.8	0.6	118.3	0.8	112.6	1.4	127.3	3.6	116.4	1.8
	Midwest	102.7	0.6	106.0	0.7	93.5	1.1	103.7	7.4	103.6	4.4
	South	109.4	0.4	110.7	0.5	106.1	0.8	117.2	4.1	107.5	1.3
	West	118.6	0.6	113.3	0.8	121.0	2.0	138.3	2.3	125.9	1.4
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	109.0	0.3	109.6	0.4	101.6	0.7	125.5	2.0	117.3	1.1
	Private, for profit	114.7	0.7	115.8	0.9	113.7	1.6	145.0	5.3	105.8	1.9
	Public	117.3	0.7	116.6	0.9	113.6	1.3	141.5	4.2	120.3	1.8
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	112.1	0.4	112.4	0.6	104.8	0.8	134.1	2.6	119.9	1.3
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	110.4	0.3	110.8	0.4	105.3	0.8	127.2	2.3	112.8	1.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	112.6	0.4	113.4	0.6	105.3	0.7	134.6	2.2	117.0	1.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	103.7	0.6	105.1	0.7	96.8	1.2	108.7	4.3	108.6	2.4
	Medium metropolitan	114.8	0.6	114.8	0.7	109.8	1.6	131.4	4.6	117.7	1.9
	Small metropolitan	112.3	0.8	110.8	0.9	113.2	2.0	127.1	11.4	128.4	4.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	113.6	1.0	113.9	1.1	114.2	2.9	160.1	9.7	91.1	5.1
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	106.9	1.9	108.0	2.1	107.1	5.1	DSU	DSU	90.3	11.7
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	101.0	1.0	100.8	1.1	96.0	3.1	117.8	7.9	109.1	4.2
	100-299	113.9	0.5	113.6	0.5	107.9	1.1	132.5	2.7	120.7	1.5
	300-499	108.0	0.5	108.4	0.6	102.5	0.9	132.4	3.3	113.2	1.6
	500 or more	113.5	0.5	115.5	0.6	106.2	0.9	126.9	3.3	114.0	1.4

^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.

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_8-2: 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_8-2.html