Table 12_3_9-2

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_9.2
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions in low-mortality diagnosis-related groups or obstetric admissions, 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		0.41	0.01	0.40	0.01	0.51	0.03	0.29	0.06	0.35	0.03
Age	18-44	0.16	0.01	0.13	0.01	0.25	0.03	DSU	DSU	0.16	0.02
	45-64	0.40	0.03	0.41	0.03	0.43	0.06	DSU	DSU	0.38	0.08
	65 and over	1.81	0.06	1.88	0.08	1.69	0.19	DSU	DSU	1.26	0.18
	65-69	0.57	0.07	0.51	0.07	0.97	0.29	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	70-74	0.87	0.10	0.93	0.12	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	75-79	1.47	0.12	1.59	0.15	1.28	0.36	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	80-84	2.26	0.17	2.34	0.19	2.20	0.53	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	85 and over	4.60	0.25	4.55	0.27	5.16	0.91	DSU	DSU	4.51	0.99
Gender	Male	0.62	0.03	0.60	0.03	0.75	0.09	DSU	DSU	0.53	0.08
Gender	Female	0.33	0.01	0.31	0.01	0.40	0.03	0.20	0.06	0.31	0.04
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	0.50	0.02	0.48	0.03	0.58	0.05	DSU	DSU	0.36	0.05
	Second quartile	0.40	0.02	0.38	0.02	0.41	0.07	DSU	DSU	0.46	0.09
	Third quartile	0.38	0.02	0.37	0.02	0.47	0.08	DSU	DSU	0.35	0.07
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	0.36	0.02	0.37	0.02	0.41	0.09	DSU	DSU	0.24	0.07
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	0.41	0.02	0.39	0.03	0.52	0.05	0.33	0.08	0.38	0.05
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.39	0.02	0.38	0.02	0.47	0.07	DSU	DSU	0.26	0.07
	Medium metropolitan	0.42	0.03	0.40	0.03	0.55	0.10	DSU	DSU	0.36	0.08
	Small metropolitan	0.41	0.04	0.38	0.04	0.60	0.14	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	0.40	0.03	0.39	0.04	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	0.51	0.04	0.50	0.05	0.50	0.14	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Expected payment source	Private	0.50	0.04	0.50	0.05	0.41	0.10	DSU	DSU	0.42	0.12
	Medicare	0.51	0.05	0.47	0.04	0.63	0.15	DSU	DSU	0.29	0.06
	Medicaid	0.61	0.10	1.32	0.35	0.47	0.12	DSU	DSU	0.29	0.06
	Other	0.68	0.16	0.63	0.17	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	0.60	0.12	0.74	0.19	0.40	0.10	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Region where inpatient treatment was obtained	Northeast	0.38	0.02	0.36	0.02	0.42	0.06	0.58	0.17	0.33	0.06
	Midwest	0.40	0.02	0.39	0.03	0.43	0.08	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	South	0.45	0.02	0.42	0.02	0.60	0.05	DSU	DSU	0.31	0.05
	West	0.42	0.02	0.44	0.03	0.45	0.11	DSU	DSU	0.41	0.06
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	0.40	0.01	0.39	0.01	0.47	0.04	0.34	0.08	0.34	0.04
	Private, for profit	0.40	0.03	0.36	0.03	0.67	0.11	DSU	DSU	0.33	0.07
	Public	0.49	0.03	0.51	0.04	0.51	0.08	DSU	DSU	0.44	0.10
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	0.41	0.02	0.38	0.02	0.51	0.05	0.40	0.11	0.40	0.06
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	0.41	0.01	0.40	0.01	0.50	0.05	0.21	0.06	0.33	0.04
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	0.40	0.02	0.38	0.02	0.55	0.05	0.34	0.08	0.36	0.04
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.41	0.02	0.40	0.02	0.41	0.07	DSU	DSU	0.38	0.09
	Medium metropolitan	0.45	0.03	0.43	0.03	0.53	0.09	DSU	DSU	0.38	0.08
	Small metropolitan	0.39	0.03	0.37	0.03	0.54	0.13	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	0.40	0.04	0.39	0.04	0.50	0.14	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	0.47	0.06	0.50	0.07	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	0.44	0.03	0.45	0.03	0.51	0.13	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	100-299	0.39	0.02	0.36	0.02	0.52	0.06	DSU	DSU	0.44	0.06
	300-499	0.40	0.02	0.38	0.02	0.54	0.06	DSU	DSU	0.30	0.05
	500 or more	0.44	0.02	0.45	0.03	0.43	0.06	DSU	DSU	0.32	0.06

^a 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.

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_9-2: 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_9-2.html