Table 17_2_2-1

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_2.1
Admissions for angina without procedure 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		29.2	1.2	34.4	1.3	36.3	1.4	45.0	1.7	75.2	2.4
Age	18-44	7.2	0.4	8.6	0.4	8.6	0.5	10.4	0.6	14.7	0.7
	45-64	43.0	2.0	50.3	2.2	52.4	2.2	67.1	2.8	104.9	4.0
	65 and over	75.5	2.9	88.2	3.2	96.3	3.5	116.2	4.1	215.0	6.9
	65-69	60.9	2.9	76.5	3.5	80.3	3.7	100.9	4.5	164.8	6.7
	70-74	69.5	3.2	80.1	3.5	86.0	3.9	107.3	4.7	188.7	6.7
	75-79	76.0	3.5	87.1	3.7	98.1	4.3	122.1	5.3	224.7	8.0
	80-84	93.7	4.8	101.1	4.6	115.1	5.4	130.9	5.3	277.8	10.3
	85 and over	93.3	4.2	112.8	5.1	123.5	5.6	138.3	5.7	307.5	12.6
Gender	Male	29.9	1.2	34.7	1.3	37.2	1.5	45.4	1.7	79.5	2.6
Gender	Female	28.3	1.2	33.6	1.3	35.0	1.4	44.1	1.8	71.0	2.4
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	42.8	2.6	54.3	3.3	56.0	4.0	69.0	4.6	124.2	7.1
	Second quartile	30.1	1.7	36.2	2.0	37.7	2.0	47.5	2.3	83.7	3.9
	Third quartile	24.7	1.6	25.9	1.4	29.4	1.5	34.7	1.9	58.3	3.3
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	19.7	1.9	23.0	1.9	24.3	1.9	28.6	2.2	48.9	3.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	26.0	2.7	33.1	3.1	32.6	3.6	39.0	3.8	72.8	6.9
	Large fringe metropolitan	30.0	3.3	30.2	3.3	32.5	2.8	43.9	4.3	77.6	6.2
	Medium metropolitan	20.8	2.1	22.5	2.2	23.3	2.1	30.8	3.1	47.6	5.0
	Small metropolitan	23.9	3.4	25.7	3.3	24.3	3.3	31.5	3.6	56.4	7.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	41.1	3.3	55.8	4.4	64.4	5.4	77.4	7.4	104.6	8.6
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	51.2	3.9	65.2	5.8	71.3	6.0	78.4	5.5	130.2	8.3
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	37.5	3.7	44.8	4.2	43.0	4.4	51.6	5.1	91.1	6.5
	Midwest	25.3	1.8	31.1	2.0	35.9	2.5	46.9	2.8	65.5	4.7
	South	30.5	2.0	35.9	2.1	38.5	2.2	46.5	2.9	79.2	4.2
	West	24.0	2.0	26.1	2.2	27.1	2.2	34.5	2.9	64.0	4.4

^aExcludes patients with cardiac procedures, transfers from other institutions, and obstetric admissions.� 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_2-1: 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_2-1.html