Table 4_2_2-2

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 4_2_2.2
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with acute myocardial infarction as principal diagnosis,^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		66.6	0.3	67.5	0.4	57.4	1.0	74.5	2.2	67.0	1.3
Age	18-44	16.1	0.7	16.8	0.9	14.4	1.6	DSU	DSU	16.7	2.3
	45-64	31.6	0.4	31.5	0.5	30.7	1.0	37.4	2.4	32.8	1.3
	65 and over	91.6	0.5	94.5	0.6	70.9	1.5	98.8	3.3	84.1	1.9
	65-69	52.6	0.9	54.4	1.1	46.7	2.4	63.0	6.1	50.5	3.1
	70-74	66.5	1.0	68.1	1.2	56.3	2.9	68.3	6.5	65.2	3.7
	75-79	81.8	1.1	83.5	1.2	72.3	3.4	89.0	6.9	69.6	4.1
	80-84	104.6	1.2	105.4	1.4	81.5	4.2	133.2	8.7	106.7	5.2
	85 and over	132.2	1.2	134.4	1.3	101.2	4.2	135.0	8.2	142.2	5.5
Gender	Male	56.3	0.4	59.0	0.5	40.7	1.0	68.2	2.5	49.5	1.3
Gender	Female	79.6	0.6	84.7	0.7	55.6	1.3	77.0	3.9	70.2	2.1
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	70.0	0.6	73.4	0.7	58.0	1.3	76.2	5.1	71.9	2.0
	Second quartile	67.0	0.7	68.5	0.8	56.7	2.2	55.3	5.1	65.1	2.9
	Third quartile	64.9	0.7	64.9	0.7	61.5	2.6	71.4	4.5	63.6	2.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	63.2	0.7	62.6	0.8	48.3	3.3	85.3	3.6	59.6	3.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	64.2	0.6	64.6	0.8	56.3	1.4	70.7	3.0	70.3	1.8
	Large fringe metropolitan	61.4	0.6	62.5	0.7	51.3	2.1	67.1	5.7	59.5	3.5
	Medium metropolitan	67.0	0.8	65.8	0.9	64.3	3.0	94.6	5.1	66.6	2.8
	Small metropolitan	69.0	1.1	70.3	1.2	56.3	4.1	DSU	DSU	54.9	6.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	76.1	1.0	77.3	1.1	64.0	4.0	67.7	8.2	70.1	5.4
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	76.3	1.2	77.4	1.2	74.8	4.7	DSU	DSU	59.0	7.1
Expected payment source	Private	66.7	0.9	67.1	1.1	55.1	2.7	87.2	6.3	74.8	3.6
	Medicare	65.1	0.4	66.4	0.4	54.6	1.2	72.0	2.6	62.8	1.6
	Medicaid	72.9	1.8	78.8	2.6	66.8	4.0	64.8	6.7	67.7	4.2
	Other	79.7	2.7	76.9	3.1	85.2	8.4	81.8	20.2	94.2	8.7
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	93.9	2.1	95.2	2.7	90.4	5.2	105.2	12.9	85.9	5.7
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	68.7	0.7	69.2	0.8	61.7	2.8	80.1	5.5	65.0	2.8
	Midwest	62.3	0.6	64.8	0.7	46.5	1.8	47.3	12.5	56.6	7.5
	South	66.8	0.5	67.8	0.6	62.0	1.4	72.0	5.9	63.7	1.9
	West	70.7	0.8	69.9	1.0	62.2	3.5	75.0	2.7	74.3	2.4
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	65.2	0.4	66.0	0.4	54.7	1.2	77.3	2.6	66.2	1.7
	Private, for profit	68.6	0.9	69.8	1.0	63.9	2.7	69.6	6.8	65.2	2.6
	Public	73.0	1.0	74.7	1.1	65.3	2.7	63.4	5.9	73.5	3.6
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	61.4	0.6	62.0	0.7	52.1	1.5	78.9	3.7	67.1	2.3
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	69.0	0.4	69.7	0.4	61.9	1.4	71.8	2.8	66.9	1.6
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	64.1	0.6	64.4	0.7	56.8	1.4	72.2	2.9	68.3	1.7
	Large fringe metropolitan	61.1	0.7	62.1	0.7	50.9	2.1	59.8	6.0	66.4	3.7
	Medium metropolitan	66.4	0.7	65.7	0.8	63.8	2.9	96.7	5.1	64.0	2.6
	Small metropolitan	70.0	1.0	70.8	1.0	60.2	3.6	DSU	DSU	69.2	5.9
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	79.1	1.1	80.5	1.2	67.9	4.4	64.1	8.9	65.9	8.1
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	98.3	2.2	99.8	2.3	73.7	9.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	81.6	1.1	82.2	1.2	76.8	5.2	70.0	11.6	72.3	6.2
	100-299	68.8	0.6	69.8	0.6	58.0	1.9	76.9	3.1	65.1	2.2
	300-499	64.3	0.6	64.2	0.7	61.1	1.7	67.1	4.4	72.1	2.3
	500 or more	61.2	0.7	62.1	0.8	50.2	1.8	78.7	5.1	63.0	2.4

^aExcludes transfers to another hospital.� Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, and All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score.� When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender and APR-DRG risk of mortality score; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age and APR-DRG risk of mortality score.

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 4_2_2-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/4_heartdiseases/T4_2_2-2.html