Table 17_2_4-2

2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

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Table 17_2_4.2
Bacterial pneumonia admissions per 100,000 population,^a 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	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		371.7	5.7	365.3	6.4	443.1	19.3	210.5	17.5	347.9	22.2
Age	18-44	82.2	1.7	78.5	1.7	145.3	6.6	23.6	2.0	57.4	3.2
	45-64	295.7	5.0	278.4	5.3	507.4	23.3	96.5	6.6	246.2	14.6
	65 and over	1,501.1	23.9	1,541.9	27.6	1,270.6	57.5	937.5	84.3	1,330.5	91.2
	65-69	713.5	12.0	716.4	14.0	830.3	37.4	334.1	28.5	605.6	39.0
	70-74	1,035.2	16.7	1,041.7	19.6	1,078.2	50.0	627.1	56.4	938.1	60.9
	75-79	1,492.9	25.3	1,499.7	28.9	1,321.7	66.1	1,085.9	101.6	1,530.2	110.0
	80-84	2,176.4	36.9	2,202.5	41.5	1,674.2	89.1	1,649.6	162.7	2,301.3	167.7
	85 and over	3,352.0	56.1	3,429.2	63.1	2,300.2	116.2	2,735.8	287.8	3,388.2	273.0
Gender	Male	411.4	6.2	407.7	7.1	471.4	20.7	244.6	20.9	365.8	23.0
Gender	Female	349.6	5.6	341.7	6.2	425.6	18.8	189.4	15.8	338.9	22.2
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	504.0	13.1	518.0	15.0	509.2	29.2	318.3	40.3	399.8	35.5
	Second quartile	352.4	9.8	348.8	10.5	411.0	24.1	212.4	27.9	322.3	24.3
	Third quartile	326.0	9.8	323.5	10.2	365.2	22.5	200.9	21.7	321.8	34.1
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	305.9	12.4	304.7	12.9	371.2	26.9	179.9	22.5	302.6	26.7
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	339.1	18.3	302.3	18.5	482.7	41.9	228.0	26.1	342.5	33.8
	Large fringe metropolitan	368.4	18.1	364.4	18.6	451.2	37.0	154.2	20.5	311.2	34.5
	Medium metropolitan	293.2	20.1	287.3	20.3	320.0	35.3	165.1	40.3	331.5	57.4
	Small metropolitan	363.2	28.9	357.5	29.0	465.1	60.3	204.8	37.3	301.5	57.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	444.9	16.8	447.0	17.8	382.8	34.0	DSU	DSU	458.5	86.7
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	607.7	20.1	606.6	20.8	580.3	52.4	DSU	DSU	753.1	141.3
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	371.2	12.1	341.8	14.4	450.9	42.4	237.9	43.0	542.7	73.3
	Midwest	399.0	12.2	389.9	13.0	551.8	70.9	130.6	15.8	174.1	27.5
	South	419.6	11.1	422.8	12.1	414.6	21.5	188.6	20.4	367.9	46.6
	West	265.1	8.2	256.0	10.2	392.3	37.0	217.1	25.1	287.1	18.1

^aExcludes sickle cell or hemoglobin-S conditions, 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.

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 17_2_4-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/17_utilization/T17_2_4-2.html