T4_3_2_2_1

2011 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 4_3_2.2_1
Admissions for diabetes with short-term complications^a per 100,000 population,^b ages 6-17, United States, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2008
		2008		2007		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		26.5	2.7	28.9	2.9	36.1	4.0	31.5	2.9	27.1	1.8
Age	6-9	12.8	1.9	13.9	1.9	19.6	3.1	13.9	1.7	10.5	1.1
	10-14	28.5	3.2	31.6	3.9	41.5	4.9	37.0	3.9	30.7	2.4
	15-17	41.7	3.8	44.7	3.3	49.5	4.6	46.3	3.6	43.7	2.8
Gender	Male	23.8	2.5	25.8	2.7	31.3	3.6	27.3	2.7	22.7	1.6
Gender	Female	29.3	3.1	32.1	3.3	41.2	4.6	36.0	3.3	31.7	2.3
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	37.7	5.3	37.5	3.6	41.9	4.4	41.9	4.9	39.3	3.2
	Second quartile	28.9	3.1	31.3	3.5	38.9	4.3	36.4	3.6	30.8	2.6
	Third quartile	24.5	3.1	27.0	3.8	35.0	4.8	28.2	3.3	26.5	2.6
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	15.4	2.3	19.9	3.5	29.3	5.4	19.6	2.6	15.1	2.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	21.0	4.2	20.4	3.3	39.8	7.4	32.1	6.0	27.5	4.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	17.6	3.6	26.7	6.8	31.1	6.9	20.6	3.5	24.8	3.2
	Medium metropolitan	33.1	5.4	30.0	5.8	35.8	5.3	34.1	5.7	25.1	3.8
	Small metropolitan	36.2	5.4	39.2	7.1	35.9	5.6	35.8	4.8	25.2	3.7
	Micropolitan	38.3	4.4	41.7	4.7	37.3	4.0	43.9	4.9	32.4	3.8
	Noncore	34.3	5.3	38.6	4.4	38.0	4.4	36.4	4.3	33.1	3.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	25.9	7.1	20.0	3.6	26.5	5.2	29.3	4.6	24.2	3.8
	Midwest	23.1	5.5	35.8	7.2	35.5	7.3	33.2	7.9	30.1	3.8
	South	32.7	5.3	32.6	5.5	43.2	8.5	34.4	5.0	27.0	3.0
	West	20.7	3.5	23.4	5.0	33.1	7.5	27.4	5.0	26.5	3.9

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDI) software, diabetes must be the principal diagnosis and short-term complications include ketoacidosis, hyperosmolarity, or coma.� Transfers from other institutions and obstetric admissions are excluded.

^b. Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. resident population for 2000 as the U.S. 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, modified version 4.1.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T4_3_2_2_1: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/4_diabetes/T4_3_2_2_1.html