Table 17_2_5-2
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 | 302.0 | 4.9 | 298.0 | 4.3 | 308.8 | 4.7 | 308.9 | 4.7 | 303.4 | 4.2 | |
| Age | 1-4 | 607.9 | 19.8 | 628.1 | 16.0 | 680.3 | 17.8 | 595.6 | 20.6 | 602.5 | 18.9 |
| 5-9 | 361.6 | 11.2 | 342.7 | 8.5 | 367.6 | 11.0 | 372.5 | 10.6 | 355.5 | 8.8 | |
| 10-14 | 282.1 | 7.7 | 281.6 | 7.1 | 281.5 | 6.9 | 294.2 | 7.4 | 284.6 | 6.7 | |
| 15-17 | 225.8 | 7.1 | 227.9 | 7.0 | 235.5 | 7.6 | 223.3 | 6.9 | 234.3 | 6.8 | |
| Gender | Male | 304.6 | 6.5 | 294.9 | 5.4 | 308.3 | 6.0 | 315.0 | 6.1 | 302.8 | 5.6 |
| Female | 298.5 | 7.4 | 303.6 | 6.9 | 310.3 | 7.5 | 300.2 | 7.3 | 304.8 | 6.3 | |
| Median income of patient's ZIP Code | First quartile (lowest income) | 322.6 | 8.3 | 326.4 | 7.9 | 321.5 | 8.7 | 344.9 | 8.1 | 305.0 | 7.8 |
| Second quartile | 318.6 | 8.0 | 303.3 | 7.7 | 303.1 | 7.9 | 313.4 | 8.0 | 315.8 | 7.4 | |
| Third quartile | 302.1 | 9.3 | 290.7 | 8.2 | 318.5 | 7.8 | 311.2 | 8.2 | 309.2 | 8.7 | |
| Fourth quartile (highest income) | 264.7 | 8.1 | 272.8 | 8.2 | 291.3 | 7.1 | 263.4 | 7.3 | 281.4 | 7.7 | |
| Location of patient residence | Large central metropolitan | 303.0 | 7.9 | 324.6 | 7.1 | 322.7 | 7.1 | 313.3 | 7.1 | 322.6 | 7.9 |
| Large fringe metropolitan | 298.6 | 10.3 | 262.0 | 8.6 | 299.7 | 9.2 | 266.9 | 8.4 | 299.4 | 8.0 | |
| Medium metropolitan | 306.4 | 11.2 | 302.5 | 9.3 | 330.3 | 10.9 | 351.2 | 11.2 | 295.3 | 9.9 | |
| Small metropolitan | 307.4 | 13.1 | 302.9 | 13.1 | 286.5 | 14.3 | 314.2 | 12.9 | 309.3 | 12.9 | |
| Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan) | 298.9 | 12.8 | 275.4 | 11.7 | 281.7 | 11.1 | 293.2 | 11.9 | 271.0 | 12.3 | |
| Noncore (nonmetropolitan) | 289.9 | 15.1 | 309.7 | 15.8 | 270.2 | 13.7 | 313.0 | 14.3 | 294.7 | 13.7 | |
| Expected payment source | Private insurance | 273.9 | 5.5 | 276.4 | 5.3 | 286.5 | 5.1 | 282.8 | 5.2 | 288.2 | 4.9 |
| Medicare | 153.3 | 40.9 | DSU | DSU | DSU | DSU | 261.8 | 72.9 | 278.4 | 68.0 | |
| Medicaid | 336.8 | 8.0 | 329.2 | 7.1 | 340.6 | 8.1 | 352.3 | 7.8 | 335.1 | 8.3 | |
| Other insurance | 310.7 | 20.4 | 288.8 | 19.6 | 327.3 | 18.4 | 280.1 | 18.3 | 316.4 | 23.1 | |
| Uninsured/self-pay/no charge | 365.4 | 16.9 | 349.9 | 14.6 | 329.3 | 15.2 | 347.5 | 17.7 | 317.0 | 14.0 | |
| Region of inpatient treatment | Northeast | 259.1 | 9.7 | 257.1 | 10.1 | 262.8 | 8.1 | 275.3 | 9.2 | 279.8 | 9.4 |
| Midwest | 304.9 | 10.3 | 296.3 | 9.5 | 305.9 | 9.4 | 294.6 | 8.9 | 319.9 | 8.8 | |
| South | 314.7 | 9.3 | 303.3 | 7.6 | 315.9 | 7.5 | 319.2 | 7.5 | 304.1 | 7.0 | |
| West | 314.6 | 8.5 | 323.5 | 7.4 | 336.3 | 10.5 | 330.5 | 9.6 | 304.5 | 8.5 | |
| Ownership/control of hospital | Private, not for profit | 295.6 | 5.8 | 293.7 | 4.8 | 308.4 | 5.5 | 303.9 | 5.4 | 301.2 | 5.0 |
| Private, for profit | 311.2 | 12.6 | 287.3 | 12.5 | 283.4 | 12.1 | 309.9 | 13.2 | 291.0 | 12.3 | |
| Public | 329.9 | 12.2 | 329.9 | 12.6 | 329.5 | 12.0 | 340.0 | 12.3 | 323.6 | 9.9 | |
| Teaching status of hospital | Teaching | 325.1 | 8.3 | 314.6 | 7.6 | 329.9 | 7.7 | 324.6 | 7.0 | 327.1 | 8.3 |
| Nonteaching | 285.1 | 5.7 | 287.9 | 5.1 | 294.7 | 6.0 | 298.2 | 6.4 | 293.6 | 4.8 | |
| Location of hospital | Large central metropolitan | 308.3 | 7.5 | 326.4 | 6.6 | 323.2 | 6.8 | 317.7 | 7.0 | 324.6 | 7.6 |
| Large fringe metropolitan | 297.9 | 12.8 | 239.2 | 9.2 | 292.0 | 12.2 | 253.2 | 8.5 | 291.3 | 8.4 | |
| Medium metropolitan | 304.8 | 11.7 | 309.0 | 9.4 | 309.9 | 9.6 | 336.3 | 9.6 | 297.2 | 9.7 | |
| Small metropolitan | 305.9 | 12.8 | 302.4 | 12.5 | 323.8 | 19.1 | 353.1 | 16.5 | 313.1 | 12.3 | |
| Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan) | 283.1 | 12.4 | 262.4 | 11.9 | 268.9 | 11.9 | 285.4 | 12.2 | 260.2 | 11.7 | |
| Noncore (nonmetropolitan) | 270.5 | 19.5 | 287.8 | 22.4 | 248.1 | 19.8 | 258.5 | 18.4 | 297.6 | 17.6 | |
| Bed size of hospital | Less than 100 | 293.5 | 11.1 | 281.6 | 11.4 | 262.1 | 10.1 | 277.2 | 9.4 | 280.3 | 9.5 |
| 100-299 | 279.2 | 6.8 | 278.6 | 5.9 | 312.3 | 7.6 | 314.8 | 7.4 | 301.8 | 6.3 | |
| 300-499 | 324.2 | 10.8 | 308.8 | 9.2 | 299.1 | 9.0 | 291.4 | 8.4 | 304.2 | 9.3 | |
| 500 or more | 322.1 | 10.7 | 332.8 | 11.3 | 351.7 | 11.4 | 337.5 | 11.5 | 332.2 | 10.2 | |
aExcludes transfers from other institutions, obstetric admissions, normal newborns, and neonates.� Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population.
DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.
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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Internet Citation: Table 17_2_5-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports.
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