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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 reclosure of abdominal wound dehiscence^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		2.24	0.07	2.32	0.09	2.04	0.16	0.81	0.19	2.06	0.23
Age	18-44	0.69	0.05	0.68	0.06	0.80	0.13	DSU	DSU	0.86	0.15
	45-64	2.76	0.12	2.87	0.14	2.97	0.35	1.60	0.45	2.14	0.35
	65 and over	6.70	0.27	7.09	0.32	4.68	0.66	DSU	DSU	5.70	0.82
	65-69	6.25	0.45	6.83	0.54	4.11	1.03	DSU	DSU	3.75	0.99
	70-74	7.15	0.49	7.62	0.56	6.08	1.58	DSU	DSU	6.25	1.55
	75-79	7.76	0.59	8.20	0.67	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	6.98	2.08
	80-84	6.55	0.61	6.61	0.66	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	85 and over	6.02	0.63	6.06	0.69	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Gender	Male	3.02	0.11	3.14	0.14	2.74	0.28	1.04	0.30	2.73	0.39
Gender	Female	1.68	0.07	1.71	0.09	1.54	0.17	0.70	0.20	1.61	0.22
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	2.86	0.16	3.21	0.22	2.38	0.27	DSU	DSU	2.17	0.37
	Second quartile	2.33	0.12	2.37	0.15	1.78	0.30	DSU	DSU	2.39	0.36
	Third quartile	2.04	0.12	2.16	0.14	1.60	0.31	DSU	DSU	1.44	0.31
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	1.82	0.12	1.86	0.14	1.78	0.43	DSU	DSU	2.19	0.46
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	2.07	0.15	2.04	0.16	2.34	0.28	DSU	DSU	2.24	0.37
	Large fringe metropolitan	2.05	0.15	2.10	0.16	2.31	0.40	DSU	DSU	1.30	0.29
	Medium metropolitan	2.24	0.19	2.30	0.20	1.62	0.36	DSU	DSU	2.33	0.51
	Small metropolitan	1.99	0.26	2.07	0.30	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan	2.47	0.21	2.52	0.23	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	3.52	0.31	3.75	0.35	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	2.17	0.13	2.19	0.16	2.06	0.36	DSU	DSU	2.26	0.56
	Midwest	2.68	0.19	2.69	0.22	3.14	0.50	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	South	2.27	0.11	2.39	0.14	1.74	0.20	DSU	DSU	2.16	0.44
	West	1.82	0.13	1.84	0.14	DSU	DSU	0.88	0.25	2.18	0.36

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software, admissions are identified using all procedures. Exclusions include obstetric admissions and admissions 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_2_9_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_2_9_2_2.html