Table 17_2_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.
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2000 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population group | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | |
| Total | 280.2 | 2.2 | 286.2 | 2.2 | 286.2 | 2.2 | 293.8 | 2.2 | 317.8 | 2.4 | |
| Age | 18-44 | 203.6 | 3.4 | 210.0 | 3.4 | 206.9 | 3.4 | 215.6 | 3.3 | 229.8 | 3.5 |
| 45-64 | 390.9 | 5.0 | 393.8 | 5.0 | 398.5 | 5.0 | 401.0 | 4.9 | 443.1 | 5.6 | |
| 65 and over | 517.0 | 7.3 | 522.8 | 7.2 | 534.0 | 7.9 | 543.1 | 7.8 | 579.2 | 7.8 | |
| 65-69 | 483.6 | 11.9 | 471.4 | 12.0 | 489.1 | 13.0 | 487.4 | 13.1 | 541.9 | 13.9 | |
| 70-74 | 494.9 | 14.2 | 524.8 | 14.2 | 489.9 | 14.9 | 549.7 | 15.3 | 555.0 | 15.6 | |
| 75-79 | 535.5 | 15.7 | 535.8 | 15.0 | 576.8 | 16.7 | 557.6 | 16.3 | 602.5 | 17.9 | |
| 80-84 | 546.3 | 18.5 | 575.4 | 19.9 | 600.6 | 19.7 | 608.3 | 19.2 | 626.7 | 23.4 | |
| 85 and over | 594.0 | 22.8 | 597.4 | 24.9 | 604.6 | 24.1 | 602.5 | 24.3 | 679.7 | 26.2 | |
| Gender | Male | 303.4 | 3.0 | 306.9 | 3.1 | 305.5 | 3.0 | 313.1 | 3.1 | 336.4 | 3.3 |
| Female | 249.5 | 3.0 | 259.1 | 3.0 | 260.5 | 3.1 | 267.9 | 3.1 | 293.2 | 3.4 | |
| Median income of patient's ZIP Code | First quartile (lowest income) | 300.2 | 4.5 | 310.9 | 4.6 | 305.0 | 4.5 | 313.9 | 4.7 | 322.4 | 4.8 |
| Second quartile | 283.2 | 4.2 | 292.5 | 4.2 | 292.7 | 4.4 | 302.4 | 4.3 | 321.8 | 4.4 | |
| Third quartile | 283.3 | 4.1 | 282.3 | 4.1 | 280.7 | 4.0 | 291.0 | 4.4 | 318.1 | 4.8 | |
| Fourth quartile (highest income) | 257.1 | 3.9 | 265.1 | 3.9 | 270.5 | 4.0 | 272.5 | 3.8 | 310.1 | 4.4 | |
| Location of patient residence | Large central metropolitan | 276.5 | 3.9 | 275.9 | 3.9 | 283.2 | 3.9 | 291.8 | 4.0 | 319.1 | 4.2 |
| Large fringe metropolitan | 269.2 | 4.2 | 275.4 | 4.2 | 275.7 | 4.3 | 282.8 | 4.2 | 309.5 | 4.5 | |
| Medium metropolitan | 274.8 | 4.9 | 295.7 | 4.9 | 296.6 | 5.1 | 295.0 | 5.2 | 314.5 | 5.6 | |
| Small metropolitan | 296.3 | 7.4 | 312.1 | 7.3 | 291.7 | 7.7 | 304.7 | 7.1 | 341.5 | 8.1 | |
| Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan) | 299.4 | 6.6 | 288.3 | 6.8 | 296.2 | 6.8 | 306.6 | 6.6 | 317.5 | 7.6 | |
| Noncore (nonmetropolitan) | 311.4 | 9.1 | 314.6 | 8.8 | 291.5 | 8.7 | 305.5 | 8.8 | 317.6 | 8.5 | |
| Expected payment source | Private | 263.3 | 3.2 | 267.0 | 3.4 | 270.3 | 3.4 | 279.1 | 3.3 | 303.4 | 3.7 |
| Medicare | 314.2 | 14.6 | 352.8 | 19.9 | 331.3 | 17.1 | 374.1 | 20.3 | 368.9 | 18.1 | |
| Medicaid | 301.0 | 9.0 | 300.4 | 8.3 | 301.9 | 8.1 | 327.6 | 9.2 | 346.0 | 9.9 | |
| Other | 310.4 | 11.0 | 341.9 | 12.6 | 291.0 | 11.6 | 328.3 | 11.3 | 361.1 | 11.6 | |
| Uninsured/self-pay/no charge | 297.0 | 8.2 | 330.5 | 7.2 | 332.0 | 8.4 | 325.7 | 8.8 | 338.6 | 10.0 | |
| Region of inpatient treatment | Northeast | 246.3 | 4.7 | 255.7 | 4.6 | 254.1 | 4.3 | 264.3 | 4.5 | 289.5 | 5.0 |
| Midwest | 293.2 | 4.8 | 292.5 | 4.7 | 295.2 | 5.0 | 300.1 | 4.8 | 324.5 | 5.3 | |
| South | 289.0 | 3.7 | 293.6 | 3.7 | 302.0 | 3.8 | 307.4 | 3.9 | 326.4 | 4.0 | |
| West | 286.9 | 4.3 | 295.8 | 4.7 | 286.8 | 4.5 | 294.4 | 4.5 | 321.9 | 4.7 | |
| Ownership/control of hospital | Private, not for profit | 274.7 | 2.5 | 280.9 | 2.5 | 279.6 | 2.5 | 288.7 | 2.5 | 314.4 | 2.8 |
| Private, for profit | 284.8 | 5.8 | 281.6 | 5.6 | 290.5 | 5.7 | 314.7 | 6.6 | 314.4 | 6.7 | |
| Public | 305.2 | 6.2 | 316.0 | 6.5 | 316.0 | 5.9 | 301.3 | 6.1 | 335.3 | 6.1 | |
| Teaching status of hospital | Teaching | 274.8 | 4.0 | 278.4 | 4.0 | 280.9 | 4.2 | 275.9 | 4.2 | 311.5 | 4.7 |
| Nonteaching | 282.3 | 2.6 | 289.5 | 2.6 | 288.3 | 2.6 | 300.5 | 2.6 | 320.0 | 2.7 | |
| Location of hospital | Large central metropolitan | 279.3 | 3.6 | 277.3 | 3.8 | 281.4 | 3.7 | 290.9 | 3.9 | 315.8 | 4.1 |
| Large fringe metropolitan | 264.2 | 4.7 | 275.9 | 4.5 | 276.5 | 4.7 | 287.4 | 4.5 | 311.9 | 4.7 | |
| Medium metropolitan | 279.0 | 4.9 | 296.3 | 4.9 | 299.5 | 5.1 | 293.4 | 5.2 | 319.9 | 5.6 | |
| Small metropolitan | 298.4 | 7.0 | 315.7 | 6.9 | 297.5 | 7.5 | 317.3 | 6.8 | 348.3 | 7.9 | |
| Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan) | 292.7 | 6.4 | 283.5 | 6.7 | 294.4 | 6.7 | 295.4 | 6.8 | 318.3 | 7.6 | |
| Noncore (nonmetropolitan) | 308.9 | 12.7 | 308.5 | 12.3 | 281.4 | 11.2 | 289.4 | 11.4 | 290.8 | 10.4 | |
| Bed size of hospital | Less than 100 | 287.7 | 5.8 | 288.4 | 5.6 | 297.6 | 5.5 | 293.6 | 5.6 | 312.9 | 5.7 |
| 100 - 299 | 276.4 | 3.2 | 279.5 | 3.3 | 283.4 | 3.3 | 300.0 | 3.5 | 320.2 | 3.5 | |
| 300 - 499 | 279.6 | 4.2 | 294.0 | 4.6 | 287.9 | 4.5 | 290.1 | 4.2 | 314.1 | 4.7 | |
| 500 or more | 285.3 | 5.8 | 289.0 | 5.1 | 280.3 | 5.3 | 283.8 | 5.5 | 322.7 | 6.4 | |
a Excludes obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions. 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.
Page last reviewed October 2014
Internet Citation: Table 17_2_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/nhqrdr10/17_utilization/T17_2_5-1.html
5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857