T15_2_1_3_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.

Table 15_2_1_3_2
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations per 100,000 population for chronic conditions,^a age 18 and over,^b 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		794.8	12.8	642.6	10.8	1,866.6	86.2	440.2	37.2	840.3	52.4
Age	18-44	258.8	5.4	195.4	3.8	708.3	32.0	60.9	5.7	182.2	10.8
	45-64	780.8	16.2	543.1	9.4	2,444.6	116.3	292.7	26.9	841.7	56.1
	65 and over	2,618.0	41.4	2,401.6	44.1	4,423.5	217.8	1,727.0	148.8	2,725.8	179.3
	65-69	1,470.6	24.5	1,186.0	21.3	3,568.7	173.7	760.0	60.5	1,753.7	110.9
	70-74	1,922.3	30.9	1,595.5	29.7	4,323.5	212.7	1,279.3	110.0	2,339.6	151.5
	75-79	2,591.5	42.4	2,295.3	43.4	4,731.7	239.2	1,975.2	173.1	3,243.6	215.6
	80-84	3,660.7	62.9	3,431.8	68.8	5,245.0	275.2	3,016.1	289.1	4,234.4	312.7
	85 and over	5,168.6	95.5	5,162.6	106.5	5,348.9	294.8	4,306.1	452.6	4,277.6	318.3
Gender	Male	826.7	13.3	686.8	11.7	1,850.8	87.3	435.2	38.4	838.0	52.3
Gender	Female	775.9	12.7	616.3	10.6	1,870.7	86.3	437.9	36.6	839.0	53.0
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	1,212.1	39.3	922.5	27.5	2,147.9	134.0	652.9	73.0	1,080.5	97.0
	Second quartile	774.7	20.3	655.4	18.5	1,737.9	102.6	538.7	80.2	769.8	50.7
	Third quartile	665.0	20.0	572.2	17.3	1,618.7	108.6	456.8	51.4	726.3	68.6
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	569.1	26.0	514.0	24.3	1,524.7	128.6	331.5	35.9	598.5	46.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	906.1	50.6	606.0	37.7	2,116.4	183.4	439.1	49.6	903.4	85.7
	Large fringe metropolitan	822.9	42.6	696.4	36.6	2,064.9	181.9	346.8	56.0	717.8	73.2
	Medium metropolitan	627.1	45.0	534.9	38.7	1,259.8	141.6	469.7	132.6	820.0	140.7
	Small metropolitan	730.5	65.3	615.0	53.2	1,888.1	290.8	513.5	117.8	777.5	141.1
	Micropolitan	750.0	30.3	684.6	28.3	1,487.8	154.2	DSU	DSU	801.2	169.1
	Noncore	902.3	31.9	836.9	30.4	1,715.2	163.1	DSU	DSU	833.7	128.7
Location of inpatient treatment:	Northeast	860.7	30.2	700.3	28.0	1,909.0	205.6	485.1	112.2	1,095.3	145.6
	Midwest	800.5	30.1	648.8	21.7	2,468.5	317.2	260.3	58.9	447.6	67.4
	South	877.5	21.9	700.6	18.4	1,665.1	90.7	436.5	52.9	841.3	102.3
	West	590.5	20.6	467.1	18.5	1,862.5	230.0	461.7	51.5	813.6	67.2

^a. Based on the eight Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) for angina, asthma, congestive heart failure, diabetes, and hypertension. For consistency of longitudinal reporting, the modified overall composite does not include AHRQ PQI 5 for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease because it is affected by coding changes to the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9-CM).

^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: 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, 2008, 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: T15_2_1_3_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/nhqrdr11/15_efficiency/T15_2_1_3_2.html