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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.
| 2008 | 2007 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population group | Number | Percent | SE | Number | Percent | SE | |
| Total | 347,209 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 354,333 | 8.2 | 0.0 | |
| Mother's age | Under 15 | 712 | 12.4 | 0.4 | 766 | 12.4 | 0.4 |
| 15-19 | 42,275 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 43,643 | 9.8 | 0.0 | |
| 20-24 | 86,419 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 89,727 | 8.3 | 0.0 | |
| 25-29 | 88,381 | 7.4 | 0.0 | 89,824 | 7.4 | 0.0 | |
| 30-34 | 72,527 | 7.6 | 0.0 | 73,323 | 7.6 | 0.0 | |
| 35 and over | 56,895 | 9.5 | 0.0 | 57,050 | 9.3 | 0.0 | |
| Race | AI/AN | 3,663 | 7.4 | 0.1 | 3,686 | 7.5 | 0.1 |
| API | 20,685 | 8.2 | 0.1 | 20,601 | 8.1 | 0.1 | |
| Black | 89,659 | 13.4 | 0.0 | 91,422 | 13.6 | 0.0 | |
| White | 233,202 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 238,624 | 7.2 | 0.0 | |
| Ethnicity | Hispanic, all races | 72,398 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 73,661 | 6.9 | 0.0 |
| Non-Hispanic, all races | 271,660 | 8.6 | 0.0 | 277,820 | 8.6 | 0.0 | |
| Non-Hispanic, Black | 85,233 | 13.7 | 0.0 | 87,034 | 13.9 | 0.0 | |
| Non-Hispanic, White | 163,561 | 7.2 | 0.0 | 167,986 | 7.3 | 0.0 | |
| Gender | Female | 182,778 | 8.8 | 0.0 | 186,639 | 8.9 | 0.0 |
| Male | 164,431 | 7.6 | 0.0 | 167,694 | 7.6 | 0.0 | |
| Geographic locationb | Metropolitan | 293,341 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 299,523 | 8.2 | 0.0 |
| Large central metropolitan | 114,407 | 8.4 | 0.0 | 116,271 | 8.4 | 0.0 | |
| Large fringe metropolitan | 76,577 | 7.8 | 0.0 | 78,855 | 7.9 | 0.0 | |
| Medium metropolitan | 70,179 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 71,351 | 8.2 | 0.0 | |
| Small metropolitan | 32,178 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 33,046 | 8.1 | 0.0 | |
| Micropolitan (nonmetro) | 33,721 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 34,512 | 8.4 | 0.0 | |
| Noncore (nonmetro) | 20,147 | 8.3 | 0.1 | 20,298 | 8.3 | 0.1 | |
a. Excludes data for Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersy, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, which used the unrevised 1989 Revision to Birth Certificate.
b. For more information, see the National Vital Statistics System entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.
Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics system - Natality.
Page last reviewed October 2014
Internet Citation: T6_1_2_1_1: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports.
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