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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.

Table 12_2_5.2
Postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis per 1,000 surgical admissions,a age 18 and over,b by race/ethnicity, United States, 2008
    Non-Hispanic  
  TotalWhiteBlackAPIHispanic, all races
Population groupRateSERateSERateSERateSERateSE
Total 15.40.014.60.020.60.113.30.314.50.1
Age18-449.50.18.80.113.20.26.90.58.10.2
45-6413.60.112.80.117.90.211.30.413.00.2
65 and over20.10.119.30.126.20.218.60.520.40.3
  65-6916.40.115.70.121.60.415.30.914.70.5
  70-7418.40.117.40.224.60.416.51.020.80.6
  75-7919.50.218.90.225.60.516.11.017.80.6
  80-8426.20.224.90.236.40.727.41.431.50.9
  85 and over23.50.222.50.232.40.822.41.525.91.0
GenderMale17.40.116.90.122.20.214.40.414.60.2
Female13.90.113.60.116.60.112.10.312.00.2
Median income of patient's ZIP CodeFirst quartile (lowest income)15.60.113.90.120.50.214.10.814.50.2
Second quartile14.50.113.80.120.40.212.40.613.40.3
Third quartile15.30.114.70.120.90.313.30.515.60.3
Fourth quartile (highest income)16.30.116.20.121.40.313.50.414.80.4
Location of patient residenceLarge central metropolitan18.20.117.60.122.10.213.80.416.20.2
Large fringe metropolitan16.10.115.40.121.20.216.60.615.00.4
Medium metropolitan14.40.114.20.119.60.310.40.611.70.4
Small metropolitan12.70.112.30.116.60.412.31.811.30.6
Micropolitan12.60.112.50.116.20.59.61.110.60.6
Noncore12.30.112.10.114.80.6DSUDSU12.10.8
Expected payment sourcePrivate insurance13.70.113.30.118.30.210.00.511.50.3
Medicare16.30.115.40.122.20.214.90.416.50.2
Medicaid17.90.116.00.222.40.316.00.817.30.4
Other insurance14.10.213.60.317.00.614.11.512.30.6
Uninsured/self-pay/no charge13.00.213.20.314.10.514.81.511.20.5
Region of inpatient treatmentNortheast16.90.116.10.122.40.317.00.715.90.4
Midwest14.60.113.80.120.80.213.41.211.00.7
South14.80.113.90.119.60.214.10.713.60.2
West16.10.116.00.122.50.412.10.415.40.2
Ownership/control of hospitalPrivate, not for profit15.40.014.70.120.50.112.70.314.90.2
Private, for profit14.50.113.90.120.60.313.20.912.10.3
Public16.30.115.30.121.20.316.30.715.70.3
Teaching status of hospitalTeaching17.80.117.30.121.60.214.60.416.00.2
Nonteaching13.90.113.20.119.70.212.00.413.40.2
Location of hospitalLarge central metropolitan17.80.117.20.122.20.213.70.416.00.2
Large fringe metropolitan16.00.115.10.121.00.217.90.715.00.4
Medium metropolitan14.40.114.40.119.10.310.60.611.40.3
Small metropolitan11.90.111.40.115.80.412.42.010.90.6
Micropolitan10.50.210.40.214.00.7DSUDSU10.20.9
Noncore7.60.37.50.311.01.6DSUDSUDSUDSU
Bed size of hospitalLess than 10010.20.29.90.216.90.76.51.211.90.7
100-29913.40.112.80.118.90.29.70.512.50.3
300-49916.00.115.30.120.40.214.90.415.20.3
500 or more18.10.117.40.122.60.218.20.616.00.3

a. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software requires that the pulmonary embloism or deep vein thrombosis be reported as a secondary diagnosis (rather than the principal diagnosis), but unlike the AHRQ PSI software, the secondary diagnosis could be present on admission. In addition, the interruption of vena cava is not verifiable as following surgery. Consistent with the AHRQ PSI software, the following cases are excluded: obstetric conditions and admissions in which the interruption of vena cava is the only operating room procedure.

b. Rates are adjusted by age, comorbidities, major diagnostic category (MDC), diagnosis-related group (DRG), and transfers into the hospital. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by comorbidities, MDC, DRG, and transfers into the hospital. The AHRQ PSI software was modified to not use the present on admission (POA) indicators (or estimates of the likelihood of POA for secondary diagnosis).

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.

 

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