Table 17_2_5-4

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_5.4
Admissions with perforated appendix per 1,000 admissions with appendicitis,^a ages 1-17, 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		296.0	3.3	269.6	3.9	341.4	12.0	305.3	17.9	326.0	5.5
Age	1-4	627.7	14.1	561.7	20.5	587.9	57.9	592.9	76.0	686.1	18.9
	5-9	355.9	7.2	315.3	9.0	413.8	29.6	327.0	36.9	399.0	9.8
	10-14	276.8	5.3	255.7	6.0	308.0	17.2	314.6	29.6	305.2	9.1
	15-17	213.8	5.1	199.7	6.0	283.4	18.5	220.3	28.1	227.8	10.6
Gender	Male	295.3	4.4	271.6	5.1	320.4	15.9	274.2	21.2	325.3	7.4
Gender	Female	297.1	5.0	267.1	6.1	372.1	18.4	350.9	31.6	326.6	8.2
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	315.8	5.7	273.1	8.0	345.6	16.8	343.5	42.7	340.9	8.4
	Second quartile	307.3	5.9	281.5	7.4	340.3	21.2	357.9	43.9	342.0	10.8
	Third quartile	290.4	6.2	269.4	7.4	327.2	27.2	306.6	36.1	311.9	10.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	267.0	5.7	258.0	7.0	340.7	32.4	281.4	25.3	278.4	12.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	315.1	5.2	278.1	7.8	350.2	16.8	295.4	24.7	331.9	7.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	288.2	6.9	266.6	7.7	368.8	24.9	298.2	36.0	316.7	12.2
	Medium metropolitan	290.5	7.9	272.2	9.2	350.4	29.2	378.8	46.8	318.2	13.7
	Small metropolitan	285.4	10.4	263.3	11.6	287.1	37.7	264.1	73.2	363.7	27.6
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	258.0	8.8	254.5	10.1	276.0	40.4	310.6	43.0	250.9	23.7
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	295.5	10.6	286.8	11.6	252.3	46.5	DSU	DSU	343.3	31.6
Expected payment source	Private	271.2	3.9	259.8	4.6	315.8	16.3	284.5	21.8	294.9	8.6
	Medicare	231.1	51.6	263.4	63.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medicaid	327.2	5.2	293.3	8.1	357.6	16.9	337.3	30.5	339.6	7.4
	Other	304.9	14.6	258.4	21.1	292.3	68.5	290.5	77.8	340.8	21.3
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	331.4	11.1	303.2	16.3	398.5	38.0	378.3	66.3	354.3	16.3
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	263.0	7.0	249.6	8.6	335.2	25.8	238.7	37.0	273.7	11.9
	Midwest	288.7	7.3	274.9	7.8	331.6	25.2	332.8	54.6	375.9	30.1
	South	300.2	6.2	275.9	6.8	354.9	18.1	340.4	45.6	320.7	10.3
	West	315.2	5.9	274.6	8.4	317.3	28.8	317.1	24.8	339.6	7.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	295.3	3.9	267.3	4.5	340.6	14.2	308.9	19.9	328.3	6.4
	Private, for profit	285.1	9.4	267.7	11.9	340.6	33.3	286.4	53.8	298.0	15.2
	Public	306.4	8.6	285.0	10.7	351.4	26.4	306.9	48.6	331.3	15.0
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	327.9	5.4	299.0	7.0	386.9	15.8	315.3	25.0	347.0	8.3
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	274.0	3.9	254.2	4.7	278.2	15.5	277.6	24.4	309.0	7.5
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	318.8	5.0	285.6	6.7	362.3	16.5	303.6	22.2	336.4	7.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	279.3	9.0	259.9	9.6	345.6	28.3	283.8	42.2	295.6	13.4
	Medium metropolitan	290.8	7.7	276.0	9.3	339.7	28.5	381.0	49.0	311.8	13.4
	Small metropolitan	289.0	10.1	268.1	11.1	284.4	34.9	245.8	65.3	379.6	26.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	252.9	8.6	248.4	9.9	266.2	42.4	271.0	54.2	262.4	24.3
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	260.9	14.3	257.7	15.6	291.7	62.8	DSU	DSU	301.2	50.0
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	264.5	7.9	258.4	9.2	263.7	42.5	215.7	64.1	293.2	20.1
	100-299	284.2	4.5	254.4	5.5	307.0	18.2	306.8	24.7	318.2	7.4
	300-499	316.8	8.0	279.2	9.7	384.8	23.5	305.8	36.9	349.6	11.9
	500 or more	315.4	7.7	299.0	9.1	349.4	22.1	340.9	43.5	326.5	13.0

^a Excludes transfers from other institutions, obstetric admissions, normal newborns, and neonates. Rates are adjusted by age, gender, diagnosis-related group and major diagnostic category groups, and comorbidities, and stratified by six clinical categories and seven procedure types (distinguishing minor and major procedures and quantity).

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_5-4: 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_5-4.html