T12_1_6_2_2

2011 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.

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Admissions for central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections^a per 100,000 population,^b age 18 and over, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		14.9	0.5	13.7	0.5	28.3	1.6	7.7	0.9	11.4	1.0
Age	18-44	8.1	0.4	7.6	0.4	16.6	1.2	2.1	0.4	4.5	0.4
	45-64	16.4	0.6	15.1	0.7	32.4	2.0	5.0	0.8	11.5	1.1
	65 and over	34.4	1.2	31.7	1.2	56.9	4.0	28.4	4.2	31.1	3.2
	65-69	28.3	1.3	26.6	1.3	45.0	4.3	18.3	4.0	23.3	3.3
	70-74	32.4	1.4	29.5	1.4	56.4	5.7	26.0	5.1	27.8	4.3
	75-79	39.2	1.8	36.5	1.9	60.8	5.8	28.2	6.5	36.5	6.1
	80-84	40.3	1.9	36.6	2.0	75.8	8.7	32.1	7.1	39.9	6.1
	85 and over	37.6	1.9	33.3	1.9	59.7	7.7	DSU	DSU	44.7	7.6
Gender	Male	14.6	0.5	13.7	0.6	25.9	1.7	7.5	1.0	11.1	1.2
Gender	Female	15.3	0.5	13.9	0.5	30.3	1.8	7.6	1.0	11.5	1.0
Median income of patient's ZIP code	First quartile (lowest income)	19.1	1.0	17.2	1.0	29.6	2.4	10.4	2.1	13.0	1.6
	Second quartile	14.7	0.6	13.8	0.7	26.4	2.0	8.2	1.6	10.7	1.2
	Third quartile	13.9	0.6	13.2	0.6	27.7	2.2	7.6	1.6	12.2	1.4
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	12.7	0.7	12.2	0.7	30.9	2.8	6.7	1.0	8.3	1.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	18.4	1.2	16.4	1.2	34.9	3.2	8.4	1.3	12.8	1.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	16.9	1.1	15.7	1.1	34.0	3.4	7.3	1.5	10.7	1.9
	Medium metropolitan	12.2	1.0	12.1	1.0	18.1	2.1	DSU	DSU	9.0	1.7
	Small metropolitan	12.8	1.2	12.2	1.2	23.2	4.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan	10.8	0.8	10.4	0.9	13.2	1.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	12.4	1.0	12.2	1.0	14.8	2.6	DSU	DSU	11.1	2.6
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	13.9	1.0	12.9	0.9	24.5	3.7	7.7	1.7	9.6	1.5
	Midwest	15.2	1.4	13.3	1.4	40.9	5.3	DSU	DSU	3.9	1.0
	South	16.0	0.8	14.4	0.7	24.4	1.9	10.3	2.5	12.9	2.0
	West	13.8	0.9	13.7	1.0	35.2	4.0	8.1	1.4	12.0	1.4

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software, admissions are identified using all diagnoses, including those present on admission. Exclusions include admissions with a diagnosis of cancer or in an immunocompromised state.

^b. Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. resident population for 2000 as the U.S. 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, modified version 4.1. The analysis file is designed to provide national estimates on disparities using weighted records from a sample of hospitals from the following 31 States: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T12_1_6_2_2: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/12_patientsafety/T12_1_6_2_2.html