Table 15_1_6-2

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 15_1_6.2
Emergency department visits (including inpatient admissions) for asthma (excluding patients with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system, obstetric records, and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, ages 2-17, United States, 2007
		2007
Population group		Rate^a	SE
Total		876.5	46.7
Age	2-4	1,431.8	94.7
	5-9	1,034.2	56.1
	10-14	617.7	29.7
	15-17	519.7	20.3
Gender	Male	1,052.4	56.4
Gender	Female	692.1	37.0
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	1,280.0	109.8
	Second quartile	911.9	54.6
	Third quartile	756.2	50.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	523.3	38.7
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	1,017.9	115.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	795.1	75.4
	Medium metropolitan	881.9	97.5
	Small metropolitan	724.8	82.7
	Micropolitan	806.3	47.3
	Noncore	800.6	39.7
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	1,150.4	128.8
	Midwest	771.2	121.3
	South	885.7	62.3
	West	765.5	89.9

^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.

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_6-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/15_efficiency/T15_1_6-2.html