Table 16_2_1-1

2008 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 16_2_1.1
Hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes per 100,000 population age 18 and over in Indian Health Service tribal direct and contract hospitals and community hospitals,^a 2005
Population group		Rate	SE
Total	Age adjusted^b	29.31	3.8
Total	Unadjusted	25.36	1.6
Age	18–44	14.39	1.6
	45–64	37.82	3.7
	65 and over	56.17	7.6
Gender	Male	26.52	2.4
Gender	Female	24.27	2.2

^a Service population does not include the Portland and California regions.

^b The total estimates are age adjusted using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population.

DNA - Data have not been analyzed.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Indian Health Service (IHS), Office of Information Technology/National Patient Information Reporting System (OIT/NPIRS), National Data Warehouse, Workload and Population Data Mart.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 16_2_1-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/16_prioritypopulations/T16_2_1-1.html