T8_3_2_2_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 8_3_2.2_2
Admissions for asthma^a per 100,000 population,^b age 65 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		244.7	5.6	208.5	5.5	448.1	25.8	262.9	23.9	343.1	27.7
Age	65-69	208.2	5.2	170.8	4.8	469.3	29.2	116.8	11.9	245.2	19.9
	70-74	233.2	6.0	191.1	5.5	488.3	32.4	197.5	23.8	319.0	27.7
	75-79	259.6	6.7	219.5	6.5	472.9	31.9	311.8	32.1	392.0	39.9
	80-84	285.8	7.9	254.5	8.4	410.6	28.6	384.2	45.4	445.4	38.3
	85 and over	281.4	8.5	258.5	8.8	333.2	24.4	489.7	59.6	406.0	43.0
Gender	Male	162.6	4.2	138.9	4.2	292.9	21.1	221.6	22.3	211.0	18.2
Gender	Female	303.1	6.9	257.6	6.7	560.2	30.8	289.4	27.1	435.0	36.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	314.9	12.6	252.2	11.0	461.7	35.8	438.5	71.3	432.7	50.3
	Second quartile	229.6	8.1	202.6	7.9	413.3	33.0	295.1	50.6	303.7	28.9
	Third quartile	215.9	8.4	189.6	7.9	443.1	39.5	276.9	33.8	278.7	34.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	218.9	11.8	199.5	11.3	475.4	52.8	186.1	23.6	279.8	31.5
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	294.4	18.2	204.8	15.6	541.4	52.9	290.1	37.7	402.4	49.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	282.1	17.4	250.7	16.7	589.2	58.3	212.2	35.5	323.3	42.0
	Medium metropolitan	182.8	14.7	168.9	14.2	238.1	34.6	213.4	54.7	254.2	41.7
	Small metropolitan	222.2	22.3	206.5	21.0	358.2	65.1	DSU	DSU	271.0	62.9
	Micropolitan	207.7	12.2	200.7	12.6	263.4	32.2	DSU	DSU	265.4	71.0
	Noncore	217.5	11.1	212.2	11.2	284.7	46.2	DSU	DSU	186.4	41.0
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	295.0	15.5	234.2	14.3	544.1	66.1	301.3	75.7	731.3	117.9
	Midwest	220.6	11.5	192.2	10.6	580.1	91.5	157.2	35.4	153.0	33.5
	South	257.6	9.1	231.7	9.5	372.4	26.2	243.7	36.2	277.3	36.4
	West	200.0	9.5	157.9	8.9	470.7	83.9	270.1	31.1	292.3	39.7

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI) software, asthma must be the principal diagnosis, and the following cases are excluded: admissions with cystic fibrosis or anomalies of the respiratory system and transfers from other institutions. The PQI software was modified to limit asthma discharges to age 65 and over.

^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: T8_3_2_2_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/nhqrdr11/8_respiratorydiseases/T8_3_2_2_2.html