T2_3_5_4

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 2_3_5.4
Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with congestive heart failure,^a age 18 and over,^b by income, United States, 2000-2008
				Median income of patient's ZIP Code
		Total		First quartile (lowest income)		Second quartile		Third quartile		Fourth quartile (highest income)
Data year		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Data year	2008	28.7	0.2	30.0	0.3	29.0	0.3	27.2	0.3	27.8	0.3
	2007	31.2	0.2	32.6	0.3	30.8	0.3	30.2	0.3	30.5	0.4
	2006	36.0	0.2	36.7	0.3	37.3	0.3	34.1	0.3	35.6	0.3
	2005	39.9	0.2	40.7	0.3	40.7	0.3	38.8	0.3	39.1	0.4
	2004	42.5	0.2	42.1	0.3	43.5	0.3	41.6	0.4	42.9	0.4
	2003	45.9	0.2	44.8	0.3	47.6	0.3	45.0	0.3	46.5	0.4
	2002	48.7	0.2	48.9	0.3	48.5	0.3	48.6	0.4	49.0	0.4
	2001	53.4	0.2	52.5	0.3	52.8	0.3	55.0	0.4	54.1	0.4
	2000	56.9	0.2	55.1	0.3	58.5	0.3	55.6	0.4	58.6	0.4

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI) software, congestive heart failure must be the principal diagnosis.� Obstetric admissions and transfers to another hospital are excluded.

^b. Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, major diagnostic category (MDC), all patient refined-diagnosis related group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score, and transfers into the hospital.� The AHRQ IQI software was modified to not use the present on admission (POA) indicators (or estimates of the likelihood of POA for secondary diagnosis).

Key: SE: 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 AHRQ Quality Indicators, modified version 4.1.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T2_3_5_4: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/2_heartdiseases/T2_3_5_4.html