Table T3_2_1_7-1

2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

This appendix provides detailed data tables for all measures analyzed for the 2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Tables are included for measures discussed in the main text of the reports as well as for other measures that were examined but not included in the main text.

Table 3_2_1_7.1
Postoperative respiratory failure per 1,000 elective-surgery admissions,^a under age 18,^b 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		17.9	0.3	22.8	0.3	20.8	0.3	21.8	0.4	21.2	0.4
Age	0–4	29.3	0.7	34.0	0.7	32.1	0.5	30.8	0.7	29.2	0.8
	5–9	12.7	0.7	17.6	0.8	15.4	0.6	17.1	0.8	18.5	0.8
	10–14	13.0	0.6	17.3	0.6	14.2	0.5	20.4	0.6	18.4	0.7
	15–17	9.7	0.6	14.0	0.6	14.1	0.6	12.6	0.6	13.5	0.7
Gender	Male	20.0	0.5	25.4	0.5	23.9	0.4	23.2	0.5	22.4	0.5
Gender	Female	16.1	0.4	19.9	0.5	17.5	0.4	20.2	0.5	19.1	0.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	19.3	0.7	22.5	0.7	24.1	0.6	23.2	0.7	19.9	0.8
	Second quartile	20.2	0.7	25.2	0.7	22.5	0.6	22.7	0.7	20.5	0.7
	Third quartile	18.0	0.7	27.2	0.7	20.0	0.5	21.3	0.7	22.8	0.8
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	14.4	0.7	16.3	0.7	17.8	0.5	19.7	0.7	21.5	0.8
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	18.4	0.6	17.7	0.7	18.0	0.5	21.2	0.6	19.7	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	17.1	0.7	26.3	0.6	20.9	0.6	18.5	0.8	22.4	0.8
	Medium metropolitan	17.3	0.7	23.7	0.9	21.7	0.7	21.4	0.8	21.1	0.9
	Small metropolitan	16.1	1.1	20.6	1.0	25.9	0.8	17.7	1.1	26.6	1.2
	Micropolitan	16.0	1.1	26.3	1.1	22.7	0.9	31.5	1.1	18.3	1.3
	Noncore	26.9	1.4	23.0	1.4	19.3	1.2	26.2	1.4	20.1	1.7
Expected payment source	Private insurance	16.5	0.5	19.3	0.5	18.6	0.4	20.2	0.5	19.3	0.5
	Medicare	65.6	4.9	38.5	5.7	101.6	6.1	86.9	6.4	71.1	6.7
	Medicaid	19.6	0.5	26.3	0.5	23.8	0.4	22.3	0.6	24.8	0.7
	Other insurance	19.8	1.7	20.9	1.5	18.5	1.2	26.8	1.9	18.0	2.1
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	DSU	DSU	34.1	2.9	17.7	1.9	29.8	2.0	16.2	2.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	17.2	0.7	17.5	0.9	21.6	0.7	19.5	0.8	16.2	1.0
	Midwest	19.8	0.7	20.6	0.7	13.0	0.7	25.8	0.7	21.9	0.8
	South	19.2	0.6	27.8	0.5	27.0	0.4	22.0	0.6	22.0	0.8
	West	15.6	0.6	13.9	0.9	16.6	0.6	18.7	0.8	22.1	0.6
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	17.7	0.4	22.8	0.4	20.1	0.3	20.1	0.4	21.4	0.4
	Private, for profit	14.9	1.7	16.4	1.2	27.6	1.5	23.3	1.1	9.2	1.8
	Public	19.7	0.8	28.5	1.1	26.7	1.1	31.0	1.0	23.5	1.1
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	19.7	0.4	24.6	0.4	22.5	0.4	22.8	0.4	22.4	0.5
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	15.4	0.5	17.0	0.7	18.1	0.5	19.7	0.6	19.8	0.6
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	20.1	0.4	17.4	0.5	17.6	0.4	22.7	0.5	22.6	0.5
	Large fringe metropolitan	11.8	1.5	30.1	0.6	37.5	0.7	15.9	1.2	16.6	1.3
	Medium metropolitan	15.2	0.7	24.7	1.0	23.1	0.8	26.2	0.9	22.2	1.0
	Small metropolitan	11.3	1.9	18.4	1.5	11.7	1.3	17.4	1.1	18.0	1.6
	Micropolitan	DSU	DSU	21.9	1.9	DSU	DSU	14.0	2.0	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	10.8	1.1	DSU	DSU	6.1	1.1	26.0	1.5	DSU	DSU
	100–299	17.1	0.7	15.6	0.7	18.7	0.5	18.7	0.6	26.2	0.6
	300–499	17.3	0.7	29.8	0.5	25.3	0.5	21.2	0.7	16.5	0.8
	500 or more	20.4	0.5	21.4	0.6	21.1	0.6	24.3	0.6	22.7	0.7

^a The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDI) software requires that the respiratory failure be reported as a secondary diagnosis (rather than the principal diagnosis), but unlike the AHRQ PDI software, the secondary diagnosis could be present on admission. In addition, tracheostomy is not verifiable as following surgery. Consistent with the AHRQ PDI software, excludes admissions with respiratory disease, circulatory disease, craniofacial anomalies, or neuromuscular disorders; neonates with a birth weight less than 500 grams; obstetric admissions; and admissions in which the tracheostomy is the only operating room procedure.

^b Rates are adjusted by age, major diagnostic category (MDC), diagnosis-related group (DRG), comorbidities, and transfers into the hospital. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, comorbidities, MDC, and DRG; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, comorbidities, MDC, and DRG. The AHRQ PDI software was modified to not use the present on admission (POA) indicators (or estimates of the likelihood of POA for secondary diagnosis).

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

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 June 2013

Internet Citation: Table T3_2_1_7-1: 2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. June 2013. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr12/3_patientsafety/T3_2_1_7-1.html