Table 17_2_1-1

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 17_2_1.1
Admissions for hypertension per 100,000 population,^a age 18 and over, United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		61.6	2.2	51.5	2.2	46.4	1.7	49.0	1.5	44.0	1.3
Age	18-44	21.8	0.9	18.0	0.9	16.3	0.8	16.5	0.7	15.3	0.6
	45-64	74.4	3.4	65.4	3.1	57.2	2.4	61.8	2.3	55.3	2.2
	65 and over	161.0	5.1	128.9	5.4	118.2	4.0	125.2	3.8	110.9	3.2
	65-69	104.3	4.3	90.9	4.4	81.2	3.5	93.4	3.7	82.1	3.2
	70-74	135.4	5.4	108.4	5.4	103.5	4.1	105.3	4.1	99.4	3.5
	75-79	166.0	6.1	135.1	6.4	118.2	4.9	127.4	4.7	121.9	4.3
	80-84	213.5	7.4	162.2	7.6	155.4	6.2	163.7	5.8	137.9	5.4
	85 and over	246.7	8.8	185.9	8.2	168.1	6.7	168.6	6.4	146.4	6.0
Gender	Male	53.7	2.1	42.1	1.8	37.4	1.4	38.4	1.3	35.1	1.2
Gender	Female	66.6	2.3	58.0	2.5	52.3	2.0	56.3	1.8	50.4	1.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	100.3	5.8	86.3	5.1	73.1	3.7	78.3	4.4	80.0	4.1
	Second quartile	60.8	2.8	51.2	3.0	46.4	2.5	49.2	2.1	47.3	2.2
	Third quartile	47.9	2.5	38.8	2.6	37.6	2.1	37.9	1.8	34.4	1.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	38.2	2.6	33.5	2.3	31.8	2.2	31.0	2.0	24.9	1.7
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	78.4	7.6	68.0	6.9	58.0	5.0	60.1	5.5	52.8	4.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	55.5	4.9	43.8	4.0	40.7	3.6	43.7	3.7	41.1	3.4
	Medium metropolitan	50.5	5.4	43.3	4.4	38.6	3.8	39.6	3.9	28.1	3.1
	Small metropolitan	49.9	5.9	33.3	4.2	32.5	4.1	38.8	4.3	36.3	4.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	60.4	4.3	50.4	3.8	49.3	3.5	52.4	3.2	49.9	3.9
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	66.2	4.3	63.3	4.1	55.1	3.5	58.3	4.0	60.7	3.5
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	58.7	4.8	55.8	5.7	41.7	3.0	48.4	4.3	43.0	3.6
	Midwest	62.8	4.0	45.3	2.4	43.6	2.6	51.0	3.3	40.9	2.7
	South	78.8	4.4	68.2	4.7	62.5	3.8	62.3	2.7	56.1	2.0
	West	34.9	3.2	26.5	2.4	26.8	2.2	25.1	1.7	28.2	2.7

^aExcludes patients with cardiac procedures, obstetric conditions, and transfers from other institutions.� 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 AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 17_2_1-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/17_utilization/T17_2_1-1.html