Table 8_3_2-5

2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

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Table 8_3_2.5
Asthma admissions� per 100,000 population,^a age 65 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		221.3	5.2	178.9	4.5	437.1	24.5	279.4	29.8	377.2	32.6
Age	65-69	196.3	5.4	153.9	4.5	448.1	26.7	138.3	16.2	285.4	29.8
	70-74	216.2	5.8	167.3	5.0	463.6	29.7	214.6	24.3	380.5	34.9
	75-79	229.4	6.0	186.8	5.6	436.4	29.1	330.9	40.2	414.6	38.4
	80-84	254.8	7.2	215.4	6.7	438.4	30.2	417.9	50.0	460.7	46.5
	85 and over	240.6	7.2	207.2	6.7	374.4	29.8	487.9	77.3	410.3	40.5
Gender	Male	146.0	4.1	116.8	3.5	289.2	20.3	259.4	35.4	227.5	23.2
Gender	Female	275.2	6.4	223.2	5.6	544.3	29.5	294.9	29.5	481.3	41.6
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	288.7	12.4	211.4	8.7	465.1	33.8	438.6	79.3	480.0	65.7
	Second quartile	193.2	7.2	164.6	6.3	385.8	31.4	231.1	30.9	311.9	32.1
	Third quartile	196.2	7.5	168.1	6.9	413.7	39.3	302.1	37.7	300.2	35.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	200.9	10.4	177.1	9.5	455.2	48.3	235.7	45.8	312.8	34.9
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	273.8	17.1	169.5	11.0	527.8	50.4	305.5	41.9	442.0	59.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	256.0	15.5	221.8	14.4	536.0	54.5	253.7	67.2	368.8	46.5
	Medium metropolitan	159.8	12.6	139.3	11.4	262.2	36.7	199.1	52.8	285.8	45.7
	Small metropolitan	184.4	18.1	169.1	16.7	343.4	62.9	DSU	DSU	224.1	52.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	189.6	11.3	181.3	11.4	229.6	31.1	DSU	DSU	268.4	50.1
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	200.0	10.0	188.2	9.7	359.3	55.0	DSU	DSU	314.0	75.0
Region where inpatient treatment was obtained	Northeast	271.3	15.2	184.7	9.9	562.6	65.9	281.2	63.2	1094.6	179.8
	Midwest	181.5	8.8	153.6	7.5	532.9	85.5	158.9	34.2	140.7	31.6
	South	250.2	9.3	221.3	9.3	371.4	25.8	268.3	44.5	302.5	41.3
	West	167.1	8.3	128.2	7.8	402.7	51.4	296.0	42.8	214.6	20.4

^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.

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 8_3_2-5: 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_2-5.html