T15_2_4_1

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_4.1
All emergency department visits for congestive heart failure^a per 100,000 population (including inpatient admissions),^b age 18 and over, United States, 2008
Population group		Rate	SE
Total		379.9	10.2
Age	18-44	35.0	1.5
	45-64	270.3	8.6
	65 and over	1,765.8	49.0
	65-69	756.3	23.7
	70-74	1,127.1	33.2
	75-79	1,669.8	49.0
	80-84	2,646.0	78.3
	85 and over	4,200.0	128.7
Gender	Male	443.9	12.1
Gender	Female	332.4	9.1
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	513.2	23.2
	Second quartile	391.9	15.5
	Third quartile	320.9	13.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	307.5	18.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	352.4	25.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	378.3	26.3
	Medium metropolitan	390.4	29.1
	Small metropolitan	384.9	40.4
	Micropolitan	393.5	20.8
	Noncore	434.4	19.0
Location of inpatient treatment	Northeast	380.7	28.1
	Midwest	347.7	18.7
	South	436.1	17.9
	West	316.4	17.2

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI) software, congestive heart failure must be the principal diagnosis and exclusions include the following: admissions with cardiac procedures and transfers from other institutions.

^b. Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. 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.

Key: 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 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample, 2008, and AHRQ Quality Indicators, modified version 4.1.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T15_2_4_1: 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_4_1.html