T15_2_5_3_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_5.3_1
Perforated appendixes per 1,000 admissions with appendicitis, age 18 and over, in Indian Health Service and tribal direct and contract hospitals and community hospitals,^a United States, 2003-2009
		2009		2008		2007		2006		2005		2004		2003
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total	Age adjusted^b	353.4	1.1	347.7	1.1	402.7	1.1	332.6	0.1	355.8	0.1	363.3	0.1	384.4	0.1
Total	Unadjusted	305.4	18.7	283.7	17.7	345.7	18.3	286.0	1.8	318.3	1.9	310.6	0.2	317.8	1.9
Age	18-44	253.5	21.0	219.8	19.4	275.4	20.3	247.8	2.0	254.8	2.1	268.7	2.1	263.6	2.1
	45-64	407.9	39.9	387.9	37.9	509.7	40.2	356.2	4.0	469.8	4.1	415.9	4.6	453.2	4.2
	65 and over	555.6	95.6	656.3	84.0	583.3	82.2	560.0	9.9	428.6	8.4	514.3	8.4	560.0	9.9
Gender	Male	327.3	27.0	333.3	25.5	378.2	25.7	315.0	2.6	355.6	2.7	309.2	2.6	341.8	2.7
Gender	Female	279.0	25.7	229.0	23.9	309.2	26.0	253.4	2.5	277.2	2.7	312.3	2.7	293.2	2.6

^a. Service population does not include the Portland and California regions.

^b. The total estimates are age adjusted using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the U.S. standard population.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Indian Health Service, Office of Information Technology/National Patient Information Reporting System, National Data Warehouse, Workload and Population Data Mart.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T15_2_5_3_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_5_3_1.html