Table 17_2_5-3

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_5.3
Admissions with perforated appendix per 1,000 admissions with appendicitis,^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		278.3	1.6	271.6	1.8	302.5	5.6	268.6	7.8	276.4	3.9
Age	18-44	202.3	2.4	191.0	2.7	222.9	6.5	215.8	10.6	218.5	4.8
	45-64	386.5	3.6	394.3	4.0	411.2	12.7	347.5	16.0	332.1	9.9
	65 and over	514.5	5.2	516.0	5.7	559.4	22.3	443.0	26.9	493.2	17.2
	65-69	480.9	8.7	486.2	9.7	478.9	38.9	433.7	46.5	443.1	27.4
	70-74	494.2	10.1	488.4	11.2	562.4	41.1	436.4	52.8	513.2	33.2
	75-79	528.6	11.5	531.3	12.6	589.2	51.0	429.6	54.2	514.8	44.9
	80-84	570.0	13.4	565.0	14.4	672.1	58.2	461.5	65.4	598.3	57.0
	85 and over	568.9	16.6	574.5	17.9	649.0	78.6	508.1	80.4	479.8	77.9
Gender	Male	298.6	2.2	289.7	2.6	316.4	7.7	282.3	11.1	313.8	5.5
Gender	Female	251.2	2.2	247.0	2.6	285.6	8.0	250.4	10.8	230.6	5.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	299.7	3.1	288.6	4.2	318.0	8.5	297.3	19.3	296.6	6.4
	Second quartile	274.3	3.1	268.7	3.7	273.1	11.8	271.4	19.3	270.3	8.0
	Third quartile	282.1	3.0	280.6	3.6	313.6	13.1	264.7	15.9	261.9	7.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	258.9	2.8	255.0	3.2	279.7	13.7	252.8	11.3	260.0	8.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	272.8	2.7	262.7	3.6	301.9	8.4	269.8	10.6	271.0	5.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	274.1	3.0	265.1	3.5	294.3	10.5	271.3	17.1	284.4	8.6
	Medium metropolitan	275.3	3.6	270.3	4.1	313.5	15.5	263.6	19.3	262.5	9.0
	Small metropolitan	300.0	5.6	292.6	6.0	319.7	21.4	240.9	37.6	309.7	18.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	279.3	4.8	274.5	5.2	311.7	25.3	267.3	26.1	271.9	17.3
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	302.4	6.3	294.4	6.7	325.9	29.1	216.1	31.9	341.6	24.7
Expected payment source	Private	260.7	2.4	260.9	2.8	284.7	8.9	232.7	10.2	245.1	6.7
	Medicare	351.8	12.3	335.3	17.4	388.8	36.8	240.0	34.2	339.0	26.6
	Medicaid	296.8	6.3	294.4	10.2	296.1	14.9	296.8	23.1	275.7	10.4
	Other	308.9	8.6	294.0	10.3	276.0	20.7	305.1	36.2	297.5	14.0
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	323.0	6.2	327.7	8.2	306.9	14.5	307.1	22.2	304.1	9.5
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	256.8	3.4	249.4	3.9	277.3	12.1	265.2	17.0	256.1	8.3
	Midwest	290.1	3.7	284.5	3.9	332.3	14.8	279.3	35.3	289.2	17.8
	South	285.6	2.6	276.0	3.0	307.2	7.4	289.6	18.7	286.2	6.5
	West	275.3	3.1	270.5	4.0	276.9	17.0	256.1	10.2	276.6	6.1
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	273.8	1.8	269.7	2.1	300.7	6.8	259.9	9.0	264.3	4.8
	Private, for profit	286.3	4.0	278.6	5.1	309.0	13.5	310.9	22.6	281.0	8.9
	Public	293.5	4.2	275.9	5.2	304.7	13.1	270.6	19.4	308.3	9.2
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	279.7	3.2	270.1	4.0	311.9	9.0	253.1	12.4	274.1	6.9
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	277.6	1.8	271.9	2.1	294.9	7.0	275.7	9.9	277.0	4.7
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	272.7	2.6	262.9	3.4	299.8	8.3	269.3	10.4	270.2	5.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	272.8	3.3	264.7	3.8	298.1	10.7	264.4	17.8	282.7	8.7
	Medium metropolitan	278.7	3.6	273.7	4.1	309.6	15.2	262.5	19.1	265.5	9.0
	Small metropolitan	307.2	5.4	299.4	5.9	336.3	19.9	241.8	35.6	314.8	17.5
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	278.7	4.6	273.8	5.0	297.8	26.8	294.7	25.8	284.1	17.8
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	287.7	8.3	278.7	8.8	313.2	36.8	DSU	DSU	321.2	28.7
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	271.9	3.8	269.1	4.2	248.5	19.3	268.8	27.3	283.5	12.6
	100-299	271.6	2.4	266.7	2.8	289.4	8.9	271.3	10.9	267.3	5.9
	300-499	289.4	3.2	281.7	3.9	318.7	10.1	258.8	15.6	288.7	7.5
	500 or more	283.4	3.9	272.7	4.7	312.1	11.2	265.4	19.0	271.3	8.0

^a Excludes obstetric admissions 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.

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_5-3: 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_5-3.html