Table 15_1_1-5

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 15_1_1.5
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations per 100,000 population for acute conditions, age 18 and over, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2007
				Non-Hispanic						Hispanic (all races)
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic (all races)
Population group		Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE	Rate^a	SE
Total		665.31	10.10	645.42	11.26	839.65	35.37	382.60	29.68	659.50	42.24
Age	18-44	171.65	3.45	164.69	3.57	263.97	11.35	57.81	4.01	144.25	7.74
	45-64	473.50	7.82	442.93	8.21	784.56	33.75	172.21	10.71	436.94	25.65
	65 and over	2,678.08	42.03	2,698.82	47.94	2,728.64	122.00	1,620.91	136.64	2,427.60	169.56
Age	65-69	1,144.86	18.17	1,123.81	20.86	1,466.52	64.34	562.14	42.48	1,050.99	67.53
	70-74	1,718.74	26.59	1,685.19	30.65	2,088.86	90.98	1,026.39	83.38	1,682.25	107.43
	75-79	2,587.04	41.79	2,547.86	47.31	2,760.34	127.11	1,809.95	151.23	2,758.00	191.68
	80-84	3,962.59	64.81	3,929.56	72.58	3,876.82	190.97	2,940.29	264.25	4,298.77	315.04
	85 and over	6,301.09	105.27	6,322.03	116.67	5,794.38	282.98	4,847.18	482.43	6,184.53	508.74
Gender	Male	635.40	9.64	622.71	10.84	799.83	34.46	364.92	29.90	575.58	36.73
Gender	Female	699.59	10.86	674.67	12.04	877.19	36.90	399.93	30.27	730.59	46.91
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	875.44	22.26	879.75	24.26	932.33	51.56	578.94	74.71	752.92	66.93
	Second quartile	622.98	17.37	608.42	18.17	788.96	43.83	378.64	49.15	611.98	45.76
	Third quartile	590.28	17.59	578.78	18.20	732.87	44.42	363.60	36.95	613.92	64.03
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	575.26	23.55	570.07	24.36	754.17	54.86	330.44	38.74	574.34	50.17
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	631.98	33.68	562.68	33.88	885.91	74.72	420.15	44.42	654.96	64.82
	Large fringe metropolitan	686.61	34.09	671.92	34.65	911.24	73.47	295.14	41.84	601.77	65.58
	Medium metropolitan	520.43	35.83	506.66	35.95	582.41	64.01	275.40	62.12	627.77	112.52
	Small metropolitan	641.91	51.45	624.34	50.61	896.34	121.11	363.01	64.23	569.27	115.62
	Micropolitan	749.13	27.40	744.44	28.55	747.30	66.52	DSU	DSU	830.13	159.07
	Not metropolitan or micropolitan	1,021.13	32.40	1,006.17	32.97	1,162.12	99.90	DSU	DSU	1,330.34	237.90
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	671.14	22.31	611.91	25.90	841.82	76.74	441.89	75.95	1,014.20	140.02
	Midwest	680.96	21.06	660.69	22.13	1,009.14	127.79	222.68	22.90	309.40	42.93
	South	761.79	19.54	756.45	21.14	799.64	40.03	369.30	45.12	713.88	88.70
	West	484.81	14.73	464.30	18.47	751.75	72.90	388.43	41.91	537.22	34.68

^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 15_1_1-5: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/15_efficiency/T15_1_1-5.html