Table 8_3_2-3

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_3_2.3
Asthma admissions per 100,000 population,^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		117.9	3.6	124.0	4.3	127.3	3.8	120.0	3.8	112.3	3.3
Age	18-44	71.1	2.4	75.7	3.1	75.4	2.7	74.9	2.6	91.4	3.0
	45-64	148.0	5.0	152.3	5.8	157.0	5.1	147.7	5.1	127.1	4.1
	65 and over	207.5	6.5	222.1	7.9	235.5	7.6	211.2	6.8	151.9	5.0
	65-69	179.6	6.4	192.9	7.5	195.2	7.0	187.3	7.1	129.9	5.3
	70-74	197.7	7.5	212.0	9.0	219.5	7.9	201.5	7.0	148.7	5.2
	75-79	221.8	8.5	232.4	8.7	246.6	8.7	220.5	7.9	158.5	6.1
	80-84	241.4	8.5	263.7	10.3	294.3	10.7	248.9	10.0	177.6	7.9
	85 and over	231.9	9.1	245.4	11.2	270.7	12.4	230.0	11.0	180.2	7.9
Gender	Male	71.0	2.5	73.8	2.7	74.2	2.5	70.6	2.5	63.3	2.2
Gender	Female	160.3	4.8	169.3	6.0	175.1	5.1	164.9	5.1	158.1	4.5
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	181.7	10.4	198.7	12.5	190.0	10.2	184.8	11.5	191.2	11.5
	Second quartile	121.7	5.6	125.4	6.2	131.4	5.9	123.6	5.6	120.0	5.3
	Third quartile	97.8	4.9	99.2	4.6	109.2	5.0	95.9	4.4	95.1	4.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	73.5	5.0	81.8	5.9	87.4	5.6	78.5	5.3	69.8	4.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	141.8	12.0	162.7	15.1	150.4	11.8	147.7	13.6	144.6	12.0
	Large fringe metropolitan	114.3	10.2	107.5	9.2	121.7	10.6	113.6	10.0	109.7	8.6
	Medium metropolitan	99.4	10.3	108.3	11.6	116.9	11.5	98.1	9.2	79.1	9.1
	Small metropolitan	112.7	13.9	95.4	11.4	96.7	12.3	100.1	11.5	89.2	10.4
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	110.4	7.4	118.8	8.0	127.8	8.2	121.2	7.1	107.2	9.2
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	108.9	6.8	121.0	8.6	130.4	9.3	123.3	7.9	117.3	8.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	146.9	11.0	170.5	15.3	149.4	11.0	152.3	13.6	149.3	11.7
	Midwest	123.9	7.7	123.6	7.8	124.2	6.0	123.1	7.5	104.6	6.4
	South	125.3	6.2	128.4	7.0	141.6	7.2	128.0	5.3	113.4	4.2
	West	76.2	3.7	77.6	4.1	88.4	5.0	76.1	3.9	85.6	4.9

^aExcludes patients with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system, obstetric admissions, and transfers from other institutions. Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population; when reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender only; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age only.

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 8_3_2-3: 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_3_2-3.html