Table 12_3_6-1

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_3_6.1
Decubitus ulcers per 1,000 discharges with a length of stay of 5 or more days, age 18 and over,^a United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		25.1	0.0	24.6	0.0	24.1	0.0	24.7	0.1	20.5	0.1
Age	18-44	6.2	0.1	6.0	0.1	5.5	0.1	5.6	0.1	4.7	0.1
	45-64	16.4	0.1	16.2	0.1	15.3	0.1	15.6	0.1	12.0	0.1
	65 and over	35.9	0.1	35.1	0.1	34.9	0.1	35.4	0.1	29.6	0.1
	65-69	26.0	0.2	25.4	0.2	24.6	0.2	24.9	0.2	19.7	0.2
	70-74	26.4	0.1	26.0	0.2	25.3	0.2	25.8	0.2	20.3	0.2
	75-79	35.0	0.2	34.1	0.2	33.7	0.2	34.0	0.2	28.2	0.2
	80-84	33.9	0.2	33.7	0.2	34.1	0.2	34.8	0.2	29.3	0.2
	85 and over	51.7	0.2	50.3	0.2	50.2	0.2	52.5	0.2	46.6	0.2
Gender	Male	24.9	0.1	24.1	0.1	23.9	0.1	24.1	0.1	19.9	0.1
Gender	Female	26.0	0.1	25.9	0.1	25.7	0.1	25.8	0.1	22.0	0.1
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	25.7	0.1	26.5	0.1	24.8	0.1	25.3	0.1	21.2	0.1
	Second quartile	23.9	0.1	23.1	0.1	22.6	0.1	23.1	0.1	19.3	0.1
	Third quartile	24.0	0.1	23.6	0.1	22.9	0.1	24.3	0.1	20.6	0.1
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	26.9	0.1	24.6	0.1	26.2	0.1	26.0	0.1	20.8	0.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	31.4	0.1	30.7	0.1	28.2	0.1	31.4	0.1	26.1	0.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	25.0	0.1	24.4	0.1	26.2	0.1	24.5	0.1	19.6	0.1
	Medium metropolitan	22.9	0.1	21.9	0.1	21.8	0.1	21.6	0.1	18.0	0.1
	Small metropolitan	20.1	0.2	20.6	0.2	20.1	0.2	20.4	0.2	16.9	0.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	20.0	0.1	19.7	0.1	18.9	0.1	19.2	0.1	16.1	0.2
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	19.6	0.2	18.1	0.2	19.4	0.2	19.9	0.2	17.1	0.2
Expected payment source	Private	20.3	0.1	20.3	0.1	18.9	0.1	19.5	0.1	15.2	0.1
	Medicare	25.4	0.1	24.9	0.1	24.6	0.1	25.2	0.1	21.2	0.1
	Medicaid	33.6	0.2	32.6	0.2	30.1	0.2	31.1	0.2	26.2	0.2
	Other	24.5	0.4	20.0	0.4	22.2	0.4	25.0	0.4	17.3	0.5
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	17.9	0.3	16.6	0.3	17.2	0.4	19.0	0.4	14.3	0.4
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	30.8	0.1	30.7	0.1	29.3	0.1	29.6	0.1	22.8	0.1
	Midwest	20.6	0.1	19.7	0.1	18.8	0.1	21.8	0.1	18.5	0.1
	South	23.6	0.1	23.6	0.1	23.9	0.1	23.0	0.1	20.2	0.1
	West	27.6	0.1	26.1	0.1	24.9	0.1	26.9	0.1	20.7	0.1
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	24.9	0.1	24.5	0.1	24.0	0.1	24.9	0.1	20.4	0.1
	Private, for profit	26.9	0.1	26.2	0.1	25.4	0.1	24.5	0.1	22.4	0.1
	Public	23.7	0.1	23.1	0.1	22.9	0.1	23.6	0.1	18.4	0.2
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	29.8	0.1	29.7	0.1	29.6	0.1	29.0	0.1	24.0	0.1
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	22.9	0.1	22.2	0.1	22.0	0.1	23.0	0.1	19.1	0.1
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	29.9	0.1	29.6	0.1	27.0	0.1	30.0	0.1	25.0	0.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	26.3	0.1	24.7	0.1	27.2	0.1	25.3	0.1	19.7	0.1
	Medium metropolitan	22.6	0.1	22.1	0.1	21.8	0.1	21.4	0.1	17.8	0.1
	Small metropolitan	19.3	0.1	19.6	0.2	20.2	0.2	19.8	0.2	17.2	0.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	19.9	0.1	19.2	0.1	18.4	0.1	18.7	0.2	16.3	0.2
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	19.7	0.2	18.3	0.2	19.4	0.2	22.4	0.2	18.6	0.2
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	21.0	0.1	19.9	0.1	20.3	0.1	21.1	0.1	17.5	0.1
	100-299	25.2	0.1	23.5	0.1	23.3	0.1	24.0	0.1	19.9	0.1
	300-499	24.9	0.1	24.9	0.1	24.8	0.1	24.8	0.1	21.7	0.1
	500 or more	27.8	0.1	28.7	0.1	27.5	0.1	28.1	0.1	21.9	0.1

^a Excludes transfers; patients admitted from long-term care facilities; patients with diseases of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and breast; and obstetric admissions.� Also excludes admissions specifically for such problems, such as cases from earlier admissions or from other hospitals. 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_3_6-1: 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_3_6-1.html