Table 12_1_5-1

2010 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 12_1_5.1
Postoperative sepsis per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges with an operating room procedure,^a age 18 and over, United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		15.4	0.1	15.1	0.1	13.7	0.1	13.2	0.1	9.6	0.1
Age	18-44	11.7	0.3	11.0	0.3	10.4	0.3	9.4	0.2	6.7	0.2
	45-64	13.2	0.2	13.1	0.2	11.5	0.2	11.1	0.2	8.6	0.2
	65 and over	18.6	0.2	18.0	0.2	16.5	0.2	16.2	0.2	11.3	0.2
	65-69	15.6	0.3	15.9	0.3	14.5	0.3	14.9	0.3	8.8	0.3
	70-74	15.8	0.3	15.1	0.3	14.4	0.3	13.6	0.3	9.7	0.3
	75-79	20.4	0.3	19.4	0.3	16.6	0.4	17.8	0.3	12.1	0.3
	80-84	22.7	0.4	21.8	0.5	20.2	0.5	19.3	0.5	15.0	0.5
	85 and over	22.9	0.6	22.7	0.7	21.6	0.7	17.6	0.7	15.5	0.6
Gender	Male	17.7	0.2	17.2	0.2	15.8	0.2	15.9	0.2	11.7	0.2
Gender	Female	14.1	0.1	13.6	0.1	12.3	0.1	11.3	0.1	8.0	0.1
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	15.7	0.2	16.0	0.2	15.2	0.2	14.6	0.2	10.4	0.2
	Second quartile	15.2	0.2	15.8	0.2	13.0	0.2	13.3	0.2	9.7	0.2
	Third quartile	15.9	0.2	14.5	0.2	12.8	0.2	12.4	0.2	9.9	0.2
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	14.7	0.2	13.7	0.2	13.6	0.2	12.4	0.2	8.2	0.2
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	16.8	0.2	17.8	0.2	14.9	0.2	13.8	0.2	9.7	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	16.0	0.2	14.3	0.2	14.2	0.2	14.4	0.2	10.4	0.2
	Medium metropolitan	15.6	0.2	13.9	0.2	13.0	0.2	12.8	0.2	8.3	0.2
	Small metropolitan	14.3	0.3	16.1	0.3	12.9	0.4	12.2	0.3	9.8	0.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	12.9	0.3	14.0	0.3	12.6	0.3	12.1	0.3	8.2	0.3
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	13.7	0.3	13.0	0.3	12.8	0.4	12.5	0.3	10.7	0.3
Expected payment source	Private	13.8	0.2	13.8	0.2	11.0	0.2	11.5	0.2	8.8	0.2
	Medicare	16.0	0.1	15.5	0.1	14.7	0.1	13.9	0.1	9.9	0.1
	Medicaid	16.4	0.5	21.6	0.5	18.4	0.5	18.0	0.5	12.4	0.5
	Other	14.8	0.6	11.8	0.6	13.0	0.7	11.8	0.6	8.5	0.6
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	17.1	0.8	11.5	0.8	10.7	0.8	12.2	0.7	6.9	0.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	13.3	0.3	15.1	0.3	12.5	0.3	13.2	0.3	9.2	0.2
	Midwest	13.7	0.2	12.9	0.2	11.5	0.2	12.3	0.2	9.3	0.2
	South	16.7	0.2	16.4	0.2	15.0	0.2	14.0	0.2	10.3	0.2
	West	17.0	0.2	15.1	0.3	14.4	0.3	13.0	0.3	8.6	0.2
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	15.3	0.1	14.8	0.1	13.3	0.1	12.8	0.1	9.4	0.1
	Private, for profit	16.2	0.3	17.2	0.3	17.6	0.3	16.1	0.3	9.6	0.3
	Public	15.1	0.3	13.9	0.3	11.2	0.3	12.8	0.3	10.6	0.3
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	15.1	0.2	14.9	0.2	12.8	0.2	14.1	0.2	9.4	0.2
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	15.5	0.1	15.2	0.1	14.1	0.1	12.8	0.1	9.6	0.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	16.3	0.2	16.8	0.2	15.0	0.2	14.2	0.2	9.8	0.2
	Large fringe metropolitan	17.5	0.3	13.1	0.3	14.0	0.3	14.2	0.2	10.6	0.2
	Medium metropolitan	15.7	0.2	14.7	0.2	13.0	0.2	13.0	0.2	8.5	0.2
	Small metropolitan	12.9	0.3	15.9	0.3	13.6	0.3	11.5	0.3	10.3	0.3
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	11.0	0.4	12.9	0.4	9.5	0.4	10.8	0.4	8.1	0.4
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	11.5	0.8	7.0	0.9	9.9	0.9	9.4	0.8	7.7	0.7
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	11.8	0.3	12.0	0.3	11.6	0.3	11.5	0.4	7.9	0.4
	100-299	15.5	0.2	16.2	0.2	14.8	0.2	13.5	0.2	9.3	0.2
	300-499	15.8	0.2	15.1	0.2	13.0	0.2	12.6	0.2	10.2	0.2
	500 or more	16.0	0.2	15.0	0.2	13.6	0.2	14.3	0.2	9.7	0.2

^aExcludes patients admitted for infection; patients with cancer or immunocompromised states; obstetric conditions; stays under 4 days; and admissions specifically for sepsis.� Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, and diagnosis-related group (DRG) clusters. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, comorbidities, and DRG clusters; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, comorbidities, and DRG clusters.

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, version 3.1.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 12_1_5-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/12_patientsafety/T12_1_5-1.html