Table 2_3_4-2

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_4.2
Hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations per 1,000 population with diabetes,^a by race, United States, 2005-2007
				Single race
		Total		White		Black		Asian		NHOPI		AI/AN
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		3.5	0.2	2.4	0.3	4.9	0.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Age^b	0-17	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	18-44	2.4	0.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	45-64	3.7	0.3	2.8	0.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	65 and over	4.5	0.4	2.7	0.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	4.8	0.4	3.4	0.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Female	2.2	0.2	1.4	0.2	3.1	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population using three age groups: 0 to 64, 65 to 74, and 75 and over, except where indicated.

^b Age data are unadjusted.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.��

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Discharge Survey and National Health Interview Survey.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 2_3_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/nhqrdr10/2_diabetes/T2_3_4-2.html