Table 15_1_6-1

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 15_1_6.1
Emergency department visits for asthma^a per 100,000 population, age 18 and over,^b United States, 2007
		2007
Population group		Rate	SE
Total		498.2	16.0
Age	18-44	578.7	19.0
	45-64	442.3	16.1
	65 and over	346.7	9.8
	65-69	352.0	11.5
	70-74	341.9	10.9
	75-79	360.3	11.7
	80-84	362.0	12.4
	85 and over	321.0	12.2
Gender	Male	347.1	12.7
Gender	Female	643.4	19.6
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	761.1	51.0
	Second quartile	523.2	21.1
	Third quartile	412.8	18.3
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	295.7	17.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	543.1	47.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	433.7	26.2
	Medium metropolitan	522.7	35.9
	Small metropolitan	477.0	48.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	524.8	29.6
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	476.4	22.6
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	717.7	65.5
	Midwest	465.2	26.5
	South	495.7	20.7
	West	364.1	19.4

^aIncludes inpatient admisstions and excludes patients with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system, obstretric records, and transfers from other institutions.

^b 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.

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 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2007, and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 15_1_6-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/15_efficiency/T15_1_6-1.html