Table 17_2_2-1
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.
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2000 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population group | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | |
| Total | 29.2 | 1.2 | 34.4 | 1.3 | 36.3 | 1.4 | 45.0 | 1.7 | 75.2 | 2.4 | |
| Age | 18-44 | 7.2 | 0.4 | 8.6 | 0.4 | 8.6 | 0.5 | 10.4 | 0.6 | 14.7 | 0.7 |
| 45-64 | 43.0 | 2.0 | 50.3 | 2.2 | 52.4 | 2.2 | 67.1 | 2.8 | 104.9 | 4.0 | |
| 65 and over | 75.5 | 2.9 | 88.2 | 3.2 | 96.3 | 3.5 | 116.2 | 4.1 | 215.0 | 6.9 | |
| 65-69 | 60.9 | 2.9 | 76.5 | 3.5 | 80.3 | 3.7 | 100.9 | 4.5 | 164.8 | 6.7 | |
| 70-74 | 69.5 | 3.2 | 80.1 | 3.5 | 86.0 | 3.9 | 107.3 | 4.7 | 188.7 | 6.7 | |
| 75-79 | 76.0 | 3.5 | 87.1 | 3.7 | 98.1 | 4.3 | 122.1 | 5.3 | 224.7 | 8.0 | |
| 80-84 | 93.7 | 4.8 | 101.1 | 4.6 | 115.1 | 5.4 | 130.9 | 5.3 | 277.8 | 10.3 | |
| 85 and over | 93.3 | 4.2 | 112.8 | 5.1 | 123.5 | 5.6 | 138.3 | 5.7 | 307.5 | 12.6 | |
| Gender | Male | 29.9 | 1.2 | 34.7 | 1.3 | 37.2 | 1.5 | 45.4 | 1.7 | 79.5 | 2.6 |
| Female | 28.3 | 1.2 | 33.6 | 1.3 | 35.0 | 1.4 | 44.1 | 1.8 | 71.0 | 2.4 | |
| Median income of patient's ZIP Code | First quartile (lowest income) | 42.8 | 2.6 | 54.3 | 3.3 | 56.0 | 4.0 | 69.0 | 4.6 | 124.2 | 7.1 |
| Second quartile | 30.1 | 1.7 | 36.2 | 2.0 | 37.7 | 2.0 | 47.5 | 2.3 | 83.7 | 3.9 | |
| Third quartile | 24.7 | 1.6 | 25.9 | 1.4 | 29.4 | 1.5 | 34.7 | 1.9 | 58.3 | 3.3 | |
| Fourth quartile (highest income) | 19.7 | 1.9 | 23.0 | 1.9 | 24.3 | 1.9 | 28.6 | 2.2 | 48.9 | 3.8 | |
| Location of patient residence | Large central metropolitan | 26.0 | 2.7 | 33.1 | 3.1 | 32.6 | 3.6 | 39.0 | 3.8 | 72.8 | 6.9 |
| Large fringe metropolitan | 30.0 | 3.3 | 30.2 | 3.3 | 32.5 | 2.8 | 43.9 | 4.3 | 77.6 | 6.2 | |
| Medium metropolitan | 20.8 | 2.1 | 22.5 | 2.2 | 23.3 | 2.1 | 30.8 | 3.1 | 47.6 | 5.0 | |
| Small metropolitan | 23.9 | 3.4 | 25.7 | 3.3 | 24.3 | 3.3 | 31.5 | 3.6 | 56.4 | 7.0 | |
| Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan) | 41.1 | 3.3 | 55.8 | 4.4 | 64.4 | 5.4 | 77.4 | 7.4 | 104.6 | 8.6 | |
| Noncore (nonmetropolitan) | 51.2 | 3.9 | 65.2 | 5.8 | 71.3 | 6.0 | 78.4 | 5.5 | 130.2 | 8.3 | |
| Region of inpatient treatment | Northeast | 37.5 | 3.7 | 44.8 | 4.2 | 43.0 | 4.4 | 51.6 | 5.1 | 91.1 | 6.5 |
| Midwest | 25.3 | 1.8 | 31.1 | 2.0 | 35.9 | 2.5 | 46.9 | 2.8 | 65.5 | 4.7 | |
| South | 30.5 | 2.0 | 35.9 | 2.1 | 38.5 | 2.2 | 46.5 | 2.9 | 79.2 | 4.2 | |
| West | 24.0 | 2.0 | 26.1 | 2.2 | 27.1 | 2.2 | 34.5 | 2.9 | 64.0 | 4.4 | |
aExcludes patients with cardiac procedures, transfers from other institutions, and obstetric admissions.� Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population; when reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender only; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age only.
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.
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