Table 2_3_2-3

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 2_3_2.3
Admissions for diabetes with short-term complications^a per 100,000 population,^b 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	Rate	SE
Total		60.3	1.2	48.8	1.0	159.0	7.3	17.4	52.5	3.0
Age	18-44	70.7	1.4	62.2	1.5	154.2	6.8	12.5	51.2	2.9
	45-64	55.9	1.4	37.9	0.9	194.1	10.4	16.7	55.7	3.6
	65 and over	34.4	0.8	24.6	0.7	109.8	6.3	32.3	49.4	3.6
	65-69	36.5	1.3	24.4	1.0	128.9	8.9	24.9	44.9	4.9
	70-74	33.9	1.2	23.9	1.1	113.1	8.7	22.2	47.6	4.9
	75-79	33.7	1.3	24.7	1.2	99.8	9.3	35.9	54.5	6.3
	80-84	35.9	1.5	28.0	1.5	94.8	8.6	47.4	58.3	7.6
	85 and over	29.5	1.5	22.4	1.4	81.0	9.0	57.6	47.2	8.1
Gender	Male	63.6	1.4	49.5	1.1	180.1	8.4	17.6	56.3	3.3
Gender	Female	57.1	1.1	48.0	1.1	138.3	6.6	17.1	48.5	2.9
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	94.8	3.3	73.6	2.7	188.9	11.5	36.5	65.3	5.3
	Second quartile	61.6	2.0	52.6	1.8	154.3	10.4	17.1	51.5	3.7
	Third quartile	49.2	1.6	44.4	1.6	123.7	7.8	16.9	42.0	3.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	35.3	1.5	31.7	1.4	112.8	8.8	11.8	39.7	4.0
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	67.8	4.1	46.0	2.9	178.7	15.9	16.7	55.7	5.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	55.1	3.1	45.1	2.5	157.5	14.4	9.9	47.7	5.5
	Medium metropolitan	51.0	3.9	44.9	3.5	115.3	12.7	19.3	49.3	6.9
	Small metropolitan	62.0	5.4	52.2	4.5	179.7	23.9	26.4	47.1	8.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	64.0	2.9	57.6	2.8	143.2	14.7	DSU	53.4	8.8
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	69.3	3.3	61.4	3.1	159.8	18.2	DSU	66.4	11.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	54.5	2.1	38.7	1.8	149.0	13.0	20.2	81.5	9.3
	Midwest	61.6	2.7	47.7	2.0	211.6	27.4	9.4	31.7	5.7
	South	71.6	2.3	58.5	2.0	146.2	8.5	18.8	50.9	5.6
	West	46.0	2.0	42.9	2.2	152.4	13.9	17.9	48.0	3.9

^aExcludes obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions.� Complications include ketoacidosis, hyperosmolarity, or coma.

^b 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 2_3_2-3: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/2_diabetes/T2_3_2-3.html