Table 8_2_7-2

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 8_2_7.2
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with pneumonia 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		40.8	0.2	41.7	0.2	35.4	0.7	44.9	1.4	36.6	0.9
Age	18-44	10.7	0.4	10.1	0.5	9.3	0.7	17.6	3.1	14.3	1.1
	45-64	24.2	0.4	25.3	0.4	19.7	0.8	34.5	2.7	22.4	1.2
	65 and over	51.2	0.3	52.8	0.3	41.4	0.9	54.6	1.9	42.3	1.2
	65-69	32.3	0.7	33.0	0.8	28.3	1.7	33.7	4.4	29.9	2.5
	70-74	36.9	0.7	38.6	0.8	31.9	1.9	48.1	4.3	25.2	2.5
	75-79	43.9	0.6	45.3	0.7	36.1	2.1	43.7	4.2	37.8	2.5
	80-84	52.7	0.7	52.9	0.7	49.9	2.3	62.6	4.1	45.5	2.7
	85 and over	71.1	0.6	72.7	0.7	59.5	2.3	68.7	3.9	63.4	2.7
Gender	Male	43.7	0.3	46.4	0.4	30.2	0.8	55.2	2.2	34.8	1.1
Gender	Female	37.0	0.3	40.1	0.3	22.4	0.6	38.8	2.0	28.7	1.0
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	43.3	0.4	46.3	0.5	35.5	0.9	47.8	3.1	35.2	1.3
	Second quartile	42.9	0.5	43.5	0.5	37.2	1.5	46.4	3.1	40.1	1.8
	Third quartile	38.0	0.5	38.2	0.5	33.6	1.8	44.6	2.9	36.2	1.9
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	37.9	0.5	37.8	0.5	33.6	2.1	42.4	2.4	36.3	2.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	37.2	0.4	38.9	0.5	31.8	0.9	42.3	1.7	34.1	1.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	37.4	0.4	37.9	0.5	31.7	1.5	35.4	4.0	36.8	2.4
	Medium metropolitan	40.1	0.5	40.1	0.6	39.4	2.0	48.2	3.9	37.1	2.0
	Small metropolitan	41.8	0.7	41.3	0.8	41.1	2.6	76.8	10.8	45.4	3.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	47.2	0.6	47.0	0.7	48.0	2.8	69.0	5.5	41.4	3.5
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	51.5	0.7	51.5	0.7	54.2	3.0	84.9	18.1	51.6	4.7
Expected payment source	Private	44.8	0.7	45.2	0.8	37.0	2.0	53.3	4.6	45.3	2.7
	Medicare	39.7	0.2	40.6	0.3	33.9	0.8	42.1	1.6	34.3	1.0
	Medicaid	43.5	1.1	49.2	1.6	36.6	2.1	50.4	4.4	38.5	2.3
	Other	67.9	2.1	73.9	2.5	58.9	5.3	81.4	14.3	36.2	7.5
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	49.8	1.8	51.0	2.4	45.1	3.8	70.4	12.5	52.4	4.7
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	45.2	0.5	46.0	0.5	36.4	1.7	53.7	3.6	40.6	1.9
	Midwest	35.5	0.5	36.6	0.5	28.1	1.4	26.0	7.3	21.7	5.3
	South	41.5	0.4	42.7	0.4	38.5	1.0	38.7	4.4	34.0	1.4
	West	41.5	0.5	42.1	0.6	35.5	2.2	44.9	1.7	38.3	1.4
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	39.0	0.3	39.8	0.3	32.3	0.8	43.7	1.7	36.6	1.1
	Private, for profit	42.2	0.6	43.8	0.7	41.0	1.7	43.9	3.6	31.4	1.8
	Public	48.9	0.6	50.0	0.7	43.8	1.7	51.9	3.8	44.2	2.1
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	38.3	0.4	38.7	0.5	32.7	1.0	48.6	2.5	39.6	1.6
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	41.6	0.3	42.5	0.3	37.3	0.9	43.1	1.7	35.4	1.0
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	37.5	0.4	38.8	0.5	32.6	0.9	43.9	1.7	34.6	1.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	37.2	0.5	37.9	0.5	30.9	1.5	31.6	4.1	36.4	2.5
	Medium metropolitan	39.6	0.5	39.6	0.6	40.0	2.0	49.0	3.9	35.2	1.9
	Small metropolitan	41.6	0.7	41.1	0.7	41.9	2.4	43.2	11.1	49.8	3.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	48.5	0.6	48.7	0.7	42.9	2.8	64.9	5.6	43.9	3.7
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	55.4	0.9	55.3	0.9	59.6	3.9	123.6	21.9	55.8	6.4
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	49.1	0.5	49.4	0.6	47.7	2.4	56.4	4.3	45.5	2.6
	100-299	41.3	0.3	42.1	0.4	36.4	1.2	43.5	2.0	35.8	1.3
	300-499	35.2	0.4	35.3	0.5	31.9	1.2	42.4	3.0	36.7	1.7
	500 or more	38.7	0.5	39.7	0.6	34.6	1.3	44.7	3.5	33.8	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.

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 8_2_7-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_2_7-2.html