Table 4_3_5-1

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_3_5.1
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with congestive heart failure as principal diagnosis,^a age 18 and over, United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		28.2	0.2	32.7	0.2	36.6	0.2	40.0	0.2	55.3	0.2
Age	18-44	12.2	0.5	12.8	0.5	13.1	0.6	16.3	0.6	19.4	0.7
	45-64	15.1	0.3	16.1	0.3	18.1	0.3	21.0	0.3	27.9	0.3
	65 and over	33.6	0.2	39.3	0.2	43.9	0.2	46.8	0.2	64.3	0.2
	65-69	17.9	0.5	22.5	0.5	25.0	0.5	28.2	0.5	39.4	0.6
	70-74	22.7	0.5	28.6	0.5	31.1	0.5	34.6	0.5	50.4	0.5
	75-79	26.7	0.5	34.1	0.5	36.6	0.5	41.4	0.5	58.3	0.5
	80-84	36.1	0.5	40.3	0.5	46.8	0.5	49.7	0.5	68.3	0.6
	85 and over	47.8	0.4	53.9	0.4	60.7	0.5	64.0	0.5	87.0	0.5
Gender	Male	27.7	0.2	32.3	0.3	37.1	0.3	40.4	0.3	57.4	0.3
Gender	Female	29.1	0.2	33.7	0.2	37.1	0.2	39.4	0.2	53.6	0.3
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	30.2	0.3	34.3	0.3	38.1	0.3	40.5	0.3	54.3	0.4
	Second quartile	27.8	0.3	33.9	0.3	37.5	0.3	41.2	0.3	56.8	0.4
	Third quartile	27.1	0.4	30.6	0.4	35.2	0.4	38.4	0.4	53.4	0.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	27.2	0.4	31.6	0.4	35.1	0.4	39.3	0.4	56.5	0.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	25.5	0.3	29.1	0.3	32.5	0.3	36.6	0.3	50.2	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	26.1	0.3	31.2	0.4	33.6	0.3	38.1	0.4	54.7	0.4
	Medium metropolitan	25.2	0.4	30.8	0.4	37.4	0.4	38.7	0.4	56.9	0.5
	Small metropolitan	32.7	0.6	37.6	0.6	40.5	0.6	40.1	0.6	61.7	0.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	35.9	0.5	40.3	0.5	43.4	0.5	46.2	0.5	59.5	0.6
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	38.1	0.7	41.0	0.6	46.0	0.6	52.2	0.6	60.3	0.7
Expected payment source	Private	35.6	0.6	41.4	0.6	45.9	0.6	46.2	0.6	60.1	0.6
	Medicare	26.9	0.2	31.6	0.2	35.5	0.2	38.6	0.2	54.9	0.2
	Medicaid	29.8	0.9	30.9	0.9	33.0	0.9	40.5	0.9	45.0	1.0
	Other	57.8	1.6	57.5	1.7	66.2	1.9	75.2	1.7	73.8	2.2
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	34.4	1.4	37.9	1.5	44.9	1.5	54.1	1.4	63.9	1.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	32.1	0.4	37.1	0.4	40.1	0.4	44.1	0.4	57.7	0.4
	Midwest	25.2	0.3	30.5	0.4	34.8	0.4	37.0	0.4	56.2	0.4
	South	27.9	0.3	32.1	0.3	36.1	0.3	39.9	0.3	54.6	0.3
	West	28.9	0.4	31.8	0.4	35.8	0.4	39.4	0.5	52.2	0.5
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	27.4	0.2	32.5	0.2	35.9	0.2	39.9	0.2	55.9	0.2
	Private, for profit	28.8	0.4	30.8	0.5	36.7	0.5	36.7	0.5	50.7	0.5
	Public	33.2	0.5	36.6	0.5	41.3	0.5	44.7	0.5	57.0	0.6
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	26.1	0.3	30.0	0.3	34.2	0.3	39.1	0.3	53.0	0.4
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	29.2	0.2	33.9	0.2	37.5	0.2	40.3	0.2	56.2	0.2
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	25.6	0.3	28.8	0.3	33.1	0.3	37.0	0.3	51.3	0.4
	Large fringe metropolitan	26.3	0.4	31.3	0.4	33.0	0.4	38.3	0.4	54.2	0.4
	Medium metropolitan	25.4	0.4	31.1	0.4	37.3	0.4	39.0	0.4	56.8	0.5
	Small metropolitan	31.5	0.5	38.3	0.6	41.0	0.6	40.5	0.5	63.0	0.6
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	36.4	0.5	41.8	0.6	44.1	0.6	47.3	0.6	58.7	0.6
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	48.2	0.9	49.5	0.9	54.8	0.9	58.3	0.9	59.0	0.9
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	38.8	0.5	40.5	0.5	48.4	0.5	47.9	0.5	58.6	0.5
	100-299	27.4	0.3	32.7	0.3	35.9	0.3	39.6	0.3	53.9	0.3
	300-499	26.4	0.3	30.6	0.3	33.1	0.3	36.9	0.3	57.2	0.4
	500 or more	26.0	0.4	30.5	0.4	35.1	0.4	40.3	0.4	52.8	0.5

^aExcludes obstetric admissions and 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.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 4_3_5-1: 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_3_5-1.html