T17_2_4_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 17_2_4.2
Admissions for bacterial pneumonia^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		333.7	4.5	338.7	5.4	350.2	15.0	201.8	19.0	261.9	16.7
Age	18-44	74.4	1.3	76.9	1.5	109.9	4.8	23.0	1.8	46.4	2.6
	45-64	262.4	4.0	259.1	4.5	398.7	18.1	89.2	6.9	177.1	11.1
	65 and over	1,355.5	19.5	1,417.2	23.2	1,028.9	46.9	881.5	89.6	1,012.1	69.3
	65-69	626.7	9.4	650.0	11.6	631.8	29.8	292.7	25.7	455.0	31.2
	70-74	900.0	13.6	921.9	16.4	856.4	38.8	546.0	52.6	698.4	51.3
	75-79	1,313.3	19.9	1,348.0	23.4	1,023.0	48.7	968.4	96.1	1,100.7	77.4
	80-84	2,007.2	31.3	2,049.9	35.8	1,394.3	78.7	1,652.6	185.7	1,892.8	137.8
	85 and over	3,114.1	50.3	3,225.4	57.2	2,004.2	106.2	2,812.3	350.9	2,543.2	185.9
Gender	Male	365.0	5.0	373.2	6.0	363.1	16.4	221.3	22.0	274.7	17.4
Gender	Female	317.7	4.4	320.7	5.2	344.7	14.7	190.9	17.5	256.5	16.8
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	463.5	11.7	513.6	14.4	394.5	22.6	303.2	42.1	310.1	27.4
	Second quartile	340.3	8.4	346.7	9.3	331.0	19.6	252.4	41.5	255.4	22.9
	Third quartile	286.3	8.2	288.2	8.7	311.8	20.2	198.1	25.1	234.1	23.5
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	252.1	11.0	253.4	11.4	294.1	23.8	152.6	17.1	206.8	15.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	281.7	14.4	268.2	15.7	366.8	31.5	191.1	24.5	245.4	22.7
	Large fringe metropolitan	329.8	16.6	331.3	17.4	387.7	33.3	144.7	25.7	224.3	22.7
	Medium metropolitan	264.3	17.7	263.9	17.9	243.8	26.4	207.5	58.6	271.1	48.0
	Small metropolitan	322.8	26.2	318.5	26.3	375.8	51.5	197.2	51.2	290.2	57.1
	Micropolitan	415.2	15.6	421.5	16.8	313.1	27.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	614.5	19.9	626.5	21.1	471.7	44.0	DSU	DSU	459.5	89.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	320.8	10.7	320.3	12.7	322.2	31.4	177.5	39.7	266.5	29.5
	Midwest	366.8	9.9	364.6	10.9	448.0	56.8	DSU	DSU	152.8	19.7
	South	362.8	7.8	375.5	9.3	326.9	16.4	214.5	33.6	278.6	36.2
	West	263.0	7.8	258.6	10.1	357.7	36.9	209.2	26.2	263.2	19.8

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI) software, bacterial pneumonia must be the principal diagnosis; exclusions include the following: admissions for sickle cell disease and transfers from other institutions.

^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: T17_2_4_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/nhqrdr11/17_utilization/T17_2_4_2.html