Table 4_4_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_4_2.2
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with coronary artery bypass graft,^a age 40 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		23.0	0.3	22.9	0.3	23.8	1.1	23.2	2.0	23.4	1.1
Age	40-44	8.6	1.4	8.7	1.7	13.0	3.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	45-64	12.7	0.3	12.4	0.4	15.8	1.0	11.9	2.1	11.7	1.1
	65 and over	30.9	0.5	31.1	0.5	27.4	1.8	30.8	3.1	32.1	1.8
	65-69	17.4	0.7	17.1	0.7	18.0	2.2	17.3	4.4	24.2	2.5
	70-74	25.5	0.8	26.3	0.9	21.3	3.0	22.3	5.2	21.8	3.1
	75-79	35.2	1.0	35.0	1.1	32.2	4.5	41.4	7.3	37.8	3.9
	80-84	49.9	1.4	49.6	1.5	55.3	7.8	37.5	11.2	53.2	6.3
	85 and over	62.0	2.9	59.0	3.1	88.0	16.4	161.7	25.7	78.5	13.4
Gender	Male	18.9	0.3	19.3	0.4	17.3	1.0	15.6	2.0	17.0	1.1
Gender	Female	33.4	0.7	34.4	0.8	26.0	1.8	37.9	4.4	32.8	2.3
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	25.6	0.6	25.5	0.7	25.0	1.5	23.5	5.1	25.7	1.7
	Second quartile	23.7	0.6	23.5	0.6	26.1	2.3	28.3	4.9	22.7	2.5
	Third quartile	22.1	0.6	22.0	0.6	21.6	2.7	22.5	4.2	23.5	2.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	20.0	0.6	20.5	0.7	15.4	3.6	21.5	3.2	15.9	3.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	22.6	0.6	21.2	0.7	23.9	1.6	19.7	2.8	26.3	1.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	20.6	0.5	20.6	0.6	23.8	2.1	25.8	4.4	18.5	3.0
	Medium metropolitan	23.8	0.7	23.8	0.8	26.1	3.3	25.2	4.6	20.7	2.4
	Small metropolitan	23.4	1.0	23.7	1.0	20.3	4.2	DSU	DSU	20.5	5.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	26.4	0.9	27.6	1.0	18.4	4.8	43.5	10.4	16.7	4.5
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	26.3	1.0	25.9	1.0	28.9	5.4	DSU	DSU	35.2	6.1
Expected payment source	Private	20.7	0.7	20.9	0.8	19.7	2.4	18.8	5.0	20.7	2.6
	Medicare	22.7	0.3	22.7	0.4	21.6	1.3	22.8	2.6	22.3	1.4
	Medicaid	33.4	1.6	33.3	2.3	41.1	3.8	20.7	5.6	35.6	3.6
	Other	24.2	2.3	24.8	2.6	46.4	8.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	36.2	1.9	35.6	2.4	37.7	5.8	69.4	11.3	29.5	5.0
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	22.5	0.7	23.0	0.8	26.0	3.5	DSU	DSU	16.5	2.5
	Midwest	21.8	0.5	21.5	0.6	24.7	2.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	South	24.2	0.5	24.3	0.5	22.9	1.4	23.9	5.0	25.4	1.6
	West	22.6	0.8	21.7	0.9	25.0	5.0	25.9	2.6	27.0	2.3
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	22.2	0.3	22.3	0.4	22.4	1.2	21.7	2.3	21.5	1.5
	Private, for profit	24.9	0.7	25.0	0.8	27.0	3.1	DSU	DSU	22.4	2.0
	Public	26.4	1.0	24.7	1.1	32.3	3.7	34.0	6.1	38.7	3.8
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	22.2	0.5	21.9	0.5	24.8	1.6	27.3	2.9	21.0	1.8
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	23.5	0.4	23.5	0.4	22.9	1.5	19.2	2.9	24.8	1.4
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	22.1	0.5	21.4	0.5	23.3	1.4	20.9	2.7	26.0	1.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	20.9	0.6	20.6	0.7	25.3	2.3	22.6	4.7	16.4	3.7
	Medium metropolitan	24.1	0.6	24.4	0.7	23.2	3.2	29.6	4.8	19.4	2.2
	Small metropolitan	26.3	0.9	26.1	0.9	24.7	3.6	DSU	DSU	33.9	6.1
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	29.3	1.7	30.3	1.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	24.0	1.7	25.0	1.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	100-299	22.9	0.6	22.6	0.6	23.0	2.7	23.1	3.4	25.7	2.4
	300-499	22.9	0.5	22.7	0.5	24.9	1.6	21.9	3.4	23.9	1.9
	500 or more	23.2	0.5	23.1	0.5	23.4	1.7	25.9	4.0	21.9	1.8

^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.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 4_4_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_4_2-2.html