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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.

Table 6_2_1.2
Birth trauma - injury to newborn per 1,000 live births,^a 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		2.3	0.1	2.6	0.1	2.0	0.1	2.4	0.3	1.9	0.2
Gender	Male	2.4	0.1	2.7	0.1	2.2	0.2	2.1	0.3	2.1	0.2
Gender	Female	2.2	0.1	2.4	0.1	1.7	0.2	2.8	0.4	1.8	0.2
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	2.2	0.1	2.7	0.2	1.8	0.2	2.6	0.5	1.8	0.2
	Second quartile	2.3	0.1	2.5	0.1	2.0	0.2	2.5	0.4	1.8	0.3
	Third quartile	2.4	0.1	2.5	0.1	2.1	0.3	1.9	0.4	2.3	0.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	2.4	0.2	2.5	0.2	2.4	0.3	2.6	0.5	2.0	0.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	2.1	0.2	2.3	0.2	2.0	0.2	1.9	0.3	2.1	0.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	2.6	0.2	2.8	0.2	2.3	0.2	2.9	0.4	2.2	0.2
	Medium metropolitan	2.1	0.1	2.2	0.2	1.5	0.2	DSU	DSU	1.8	0.2
	Small metropolitan	2.4	0.2	2.7	0.3	1.7	0.4	3.4	1.0	1.1	0.2
	Micropolitan	2.4	0.2	2.6	0.2	1.8	0.5	2.3	0.7	1.3	0.3
	Noncore	2.8	0.3	3.0	0.4	2.2	0.6	DSU	DSU	1.7	0.5
Expected payment source	Private insurance	2.4	0.1	2.5	0.1	2.1	0.2	2.4	0.3	1.8	0.1
	Medicare	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medicaid	2.2	0.1	2.6	0.2	1.9	0.2	2.9	0.5	1.8	0.1
	Other insurance	2.4	0.3	2.4	0.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	2.5	0.6	2.6	0.4	1.4	0.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	2.8	0.2	3.1	0.3	2.2	0.3	2.3	0.4	2.0	0.3
	Midwest	2.2	0.1	2.3	0.2	1.7	0.3	DSU	DSU	1.7	0.3
	South	2.4	0.2	2.7	0.2	2.1	0.2	2.4	0.4	2.2	0.4
	West	2.0	0.1	2.2	0.1	1.2	0.2	2.5	0.5	1.7	0.1
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	2.3	0.1	2.6	0.1	2.0	0.2	2.5	0.4	1.8	0.1
	Private, for profit	1.7	0.1	1.9	0.2	1.8	0.3	1.5	0.4	1.4	0.2
	Public	2.8	0.4	3.2	0.4	1.9	0.2	2.9	0.7	2.9	0.7
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	2.6	0.2	2.8	0.2	2.3	0.2	2.9	0.6	2.6	0.5
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	2.2	0.1	2.5	0.1	1.8	0.1	2.1	0.3	1.6	0.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	2.2	0.2	2.4	0.2	2.1	0.2	2.2	0.3	2.1	0.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	2.4	0.2	2.7	0.2	2.0	0.2	2.2	0.4	2.1	0.2
	Medium metropolitan	2.1	0.2	2.3	0.2	1.7	0.2	DSU	DSU	1.6	0.2
	Small metropolitan	2.3	0.2	2.5	0.3	1.8	0.3	DSU	DSU	1.4	0.4
	Micropolitan	2.5	0.3	2.7	0.3	1.6	0.5	DSU	DSU	1.3	0.3
	Noncore	3.2	0.6	3.6	0.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	2.2	0.2	2.5	0.3	1.3	0.3	DSU	DSU	1.0	0.2
	100-299	2.4	0.2	2.6	0.2	2.1	0.3	2.7	0.6	1.8	0.1
	300-499	2.2	0.1	2.5	0.2	1.9	0.2	2.2	0.3	1.6	0.2
	500 or more	2.5	0.3	2.5	0.2	2.1	0.2	2.3	0.5	2.8	0.6

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software, exclusions include newborns weighing less than 2,000 grams and newborns with injury to brachial plexus or with osteogenesis imperfecta. Rates are observed rates and are not adjusted for gender or severity.

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: T6_2_1_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/nhqrdr11/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_2_1_2.html