Table 4_3_5-2

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_3_5.2
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with congestive heart failure 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		28.6	0.2	30.5	0.2	22.1	0.4	27.2	1.2	23.6	0.7
Age	18-44	13.0	0.5	14.8	1.0	11.9	0.7	DSU	DSU	13.2	1.7
	45-64	14.5	0.3	17.3	0.4	11.6	0.4	14.4	2.0	11.7	0.9
	65 and over	34.4	0.2	37.5	0.3	22.0	0.5	32.3	1.5	26.0	0.8
	65-69	18.9	0.5	21.0	0.6	13.3	1.0	15.5	3.4	18.9	1.6
	70-74	23.5	0.5	26.2	0.6	17.1	1.1	24.6	3.3	17.0	1.6
	75-79	28.4	0.5	30.6	0.5	20.6	1.2	24.1	3.3	24.3	1.7
	80-84	35.1	0.5	37.3	0.5	25.0	1.4	35.2	3.2	24.7	1.9
	85 and over	48.6	0.4	50.2	0.5	36.4	1.4	47.9	3.2	42.6	2.0
Gender	Male	28.8	0.2	34.0	0.3	16.0	0.5	28.1	1.8	20.3	0.8
Gender	Female	29.1	0.2	33.9	0.3	16.8	0.4	25.5	1.6	21.7	0.8
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	30.0	0.3	34.4	0.4	23.1	0.6	23.4	2.6	22.9	1.0
	Second quartile	29.5	0.4	31.5	0.4	20.0	1.0	31.6	2.7	25.6	1.5
	Third quartile	27.3	0.3	28.4	0.4	21.0	1.1	28.7	2.4	22.1	1.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	27.3	0.4	27.7	0.4	22.7	1.4	26.2	2.0	25.6	1.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	25.3	0.3	27.8	0.4	20.8	0.6	25.8	1.5	22.8	0.9
	Large fringe metropolitan	25.8	0.3	26.8	0.4	19.9	0.9	31.3	3.0	21.1	1.8
	Medium metropolitan	28.2	0.4	29.6	0.5	21.0	1.3	28.9	3.1	23.0	1.5
	Small metropolitan	31.6	0.6	32.1	0.6	27.9	1.6	DSU	DSU	35.1	3.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	35.8	0.5	37.0	0.6	28.2	1.9	31.3	4.9	29.7	2.9
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	40.6	0.6	41.5	0.7	35.9	2.1	DSU	DSU	28.3	4.0
Expected payment source	Private	33.5	0.6	38.7	0.7	23.3	1.3	23.3	4.2	21.5	2.1
	Medicare	27.7	0.2	29.1	0.2	21.5	0.5	28.5	1.4	23.8	0.8
	Medicaid	27.8	0.9	37.6	1.6	23.4	1.4	21.9	3.5	22.6	2.0
	Other	58.5	1.6	71.1	2.0	30.4	3.7	DSU	DSU	33.5	5.9
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	33.8	1.4	44.2	2.1	25.5	2.5	DSU	DSU	25.2	3.5
Region where inpatient treatment was obtained	Northeast	31.8	0.4	33.3	0.4	25.9	1.2	30.4	3.0	22.0	1.5
	Midwest	26.8	0.3	29.0	0.4	17.2	0.8	20.4	5.6	21.6	3.8
	South	28.2	0.3	30.2	0.3	23.7	0.6	19.6	3.2	23.0	1.0
	West	28.3	0.4	29.6	0.5	22.2	1.6	28.5	1.5	25.7	1.2
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	27.8	0.2	29.7	0.2	20.3	0.5	26.6	1.4	22.8	0.8
	Private, for profit	29.3	0.4	30.6	0.5	28.0	1.2	23.5	3.1	24.0	1.3
	Public	33.3	0.5	35.7	0.6	26.0	1.2	35.2	3.4	26.9	1.8
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	27.1	0.3	29.3	0.4	22.0	0.7	27.5	2.1	23.2	1.2
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	29.2	0.2	30.9	0.2	22.3	0.6	27.1	1.5	23.8	0.8
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	25.5	0.3	27.6	0.4	21.2	0.6	25.5	1.5	22.9	0.9
	Large fringe metropolitan	25.6	0.3	26.8	0.4	19.5	0.9	32.0	3.1	20.5	1.8
	Medium metropolitan	28.2	0.4	29.5	0.5	21.9	1.3	26.5	3.1	23.8	1.4
	Small metropolitan	31.5	0.5	32.3	0.6	26.8	1.5	DSU	DSU	33.1	3.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	37.5	0.6	38.7	0.6	28.1	2.0	38.8	5.2	31.6	3.4
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	48.5	0.9	49.5	0.9	42.2	3.1	DSU	DSU	31.0	6.2
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	39.0	0.5	40.2	0.5	29.4	1.9	32.0	5.1	28.8	2.5
	100-299	29.1	0.3	30.5	0.3	23.1	0.8	27.6	1.7	25.5	1.0
	300-499	24.9	0.3	26.5	0.4	20.0	0.7	23.3	2.3	22.8	1.2
	500 or more	26.8	0.4	28.9	0.5	22.5	0.8	30.9	3.0	20.5	1.3

^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.

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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

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