T8_3_2_1_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 8_3_2.1_1
Admissions for asthma^a per 100,000 population,^b ages 2-17, United States, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2008
		2008		2007		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		117.8	12.6	132.0	10.0	164.9	15.9	155.5	12.4	164.5	11.5
Age	2-4	249.8	24.8	273.6	20.2	344.7	33.2	357.4	28.5	314.4	23.6
	5-9	136.1	14.8	161.2	13.1	195.0	20.0	171.6	13.8	183.5	13.5
	10-14	71.3	9.0	75.2	6.1	97.1	9.7	86.3	7.6	115.4	8.2
	15-17	40.1	4.8	43.9	3.1	57.4	4.8	53.5	4.3	72.9	4.6
Gender	Male	142.2	14.9	159.7	11.8	196.3	18.9	184.9	14.9	195.3	13.7
Gender	Female	92.3	10.4	103.0	8.1	131.9	12.8	124.8	9.8	132.3	9.4
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	197.8	34.9	194.4	19.4	227.8	25.5	248.5	30.4	264.9	27.6
	Second quartile	101.3	8.6	134.2	11.1	160.6	15.7	144.9	11.9	178.0	13.2
	Third quartile	88.5	8.7	104.0	12.0	146.5	17.4	118.4	10.1	139.4	13.7
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	81.2	8.4	89.1	11.8	124.0	17.9	101.8	10.5	96.8	11.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	149.6	32.0	144.2	21.6	231.5	37.3	214.3	35.3	235.2	34.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	91.5	12.7	129.9	24.7	146.0	28.1	110.5	13.5	154.5	17.1
	Medium metropolitan	122.3	23.6	112.9	18.1	140.3	22.2	126.9	23.0	107.8	15.7
	Small metropolitan	99.7	13.0	119.2	18.0	103.8	14.8	152.9	20.1	130.8	17.7
	Micropolitan	106.2	8.7	146.5	12.8	134.0	9.6	152.5	16.6	135.1	12.7
	Noncore	93.1	7.1	138.2	12.0	124.3	9.9	143.7	12.9	145.6	14.0
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	225.1	60.2	165.7	26.4	193.2	30.8	239.0	44.3	191.8	36.8
	Midwest	86.8	17.0	127.5	21.8	151.4	35.0	121.0	19.1	160.5	23.1
	South	123.5	17.2	158.2	19.6	186.8	28.9	157.8	19.0	174.2	16.4
	West	64.2	8.6	73.5	9.5	123.8	30.0	123.9	22.0	133.5	22.3

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDI) software, asthma must be the principal diagnosis and the following cases are excluded: admissions with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system, transfers from other institutions, and obstetric admissions.

^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.

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: T8_3_2_1_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/nhqrdr11/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_3_2_1_1.html