Table T2_4_3_3-2_4
2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
| Median income of patient's ZIP Code | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | First quartile (lowest income) | Second quartile | Third quartile | Fourth quartile (highest income) | |||||||
| Data year | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | |
| Data year | 2009 | 27.5 | 2.9 | 34.6 | 3.9 | 30.2 | 3.4 | 25.8 | 3.6 | 19.8 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 26.5 | 2.7 | 37.7 | 5.3 | 28.9 | 3.1 | 24.5 | 3.1 | 15.4 | 2.3 | |
| 2007 | 28.9 | 2.9 | 37.5 | 3.6 | 31.3 | 3.5 | 27.0 | 3.8 | 19.9 | 3.5 | |
| 2006 | 31.8 | 2.8 | 42.6 | 3.9 | 35.8 | 3.3 | 30.2 | 3.4 | 19.7 | 3.0 | |
| 2005 | 36.1 | 4.0 | 41.9 | 4.4 | 38.9 | 4.3 | 35.0 | 4.8 | 29.3 | 5.4 | |
| 2004 | 31.5 | 2.9 | 41.9 | 4.9 | 36.4 | 3.6 | 28.2 | 3.3 | 19.6 | 2.6 | |
| 2003 | 31.7 | 2.8 | 39.3 | 4.3 | 36.3 | 3.7 | 31.0 | 2.9 | 20.4 | 2.6 | |
| 2002 | 28.2 | 2.3 | 34.1 | 3.3 | 34.7 | 3.9 | 26.4 | 2.7 | 17.4 | 2.1 | |
| 2001 | 29.0 | 2.3 | 32.7 | 3.0 | 36.8 | 3.6 | 26.4 | 2.7 | 19.3 | 2.3 | |
| 2000 | 27.1 | 1.8 | 39.3 | 3.2 | 30.8 | 2.6 | 26.5 | 2.6 | 15.1 | 2.1 | |
a Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Pediatric Quality Indicators 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 standard population.
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.


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