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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 postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma^a per 100,000 population,^b age 18 and over, by income, United States, 2000-2008
				Median income of patient's ZIP Code
		Total		First quartile (lowest income)		Second quartile		Third quartile		Fourth quartile (highest income)
Data year		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Data year	2008	16.1	0.6	17.4	0.9	16.3	0.8	15.2	0.7	15.9	1.2
	2007	15.5	0.5	15.7	0.9	15.3	0.7	15.7	0.8	15.7	1.3
	2006	15.4	0.5	15.9	0.8	16.1	0.7	14.6	0.6	15.5	1.1
	2005	16.1	0.6	16.9	0.9	15.2	0.7	16.0	0.8	16.6	1.1
	2004	16.1	0.5	16.2	0.8	16.6	0.8	16.3	0.8	15.6	1.1
	2003	16.5	0.6	17.0	1.0	17.1	0.8	16.1	0.7	16.3	1.2
	2002	16.6	0.5	16.9	0.8	18.0	0.9	16.5	0.8	15.3	1.1
	2001	16.2	0.6	15.9	0.9	16.7	0.8	15.6	0.7	17.3	1.5
	2000	16.1	0.6	18.4	1.0	17.4	0.9	15.8	0.8	13.9	1.0

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software, admissions are identified using all procedures.� Obstetric admissions are excluded.

^b. Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. resident population for 2000 as the U.S. standard population.

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, modified version 4.1.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T12_2_4_2_3: 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_2_4_2_3.html