Table T7_5_1_1-1_4

2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

This appendix provides detailed data tables for all measures analyzed for the 2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Tables are included for measures discussed in the main text of the reports as well as for other measures that were examined but not included in the main text.

Table 7_5_1_1.1_4
Hospital admissions for perforated appendix per 1,000 admissions with appendicitis,^a age 18 and over,^b by income, United States, 2000–2009
				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	275.2	2.2	282.3	4.5	274.9	4.3	278.7	4.2	266.3	4.1
	2008	270.1	2.1	286.4	4.4	281.3	4.1	268.0	3.9	250.0	3.8
	2007	280.0	2.2	300.0	4.5	282.9	4.2	283.4	4.1	257.0	3.9
	2006	286.3	2.2	311.1	4.6	292.6	4.2	282.4	4.1	265.1	3.9
	2005	286.2	2.2	305.1	4.5	292.8	4.4	280.7	4.0	270.5	4.0
	2004	293.8	2.2	313.9	4.7	302.4	4.3	291.0	4.4	272.5	3.8
	2003	303.1	2.3	324.0	5.0	322.5	4.4	296.6	4.0	274.9	4.1
	2002	302.9	2.3	326.8	4.7	303.4	4.4	297.4	4.2	287.9	4.5
	2001	307.1	2.3	321.0	4.9	319.4	4.5	309.1	4.5	284.7	4.1
	2000	317.8	2.4	322.4	4.8	321.8	4.4	318.1	4.8	310.1	4.4

^a Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Prevention Quality Indicators software, transfers from other institutions are excluded.

^b Rates are adjusted by age and gender using U.S. hospitalizations 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.

Page last reviewed June 2013

Internet Citation: Table T7_5_1_1-1_4: 2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. June 2013. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr12/7_efficiency/T7_5_1_1-1_4.html