Table 12_1_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.

Table 12_1_5.2
Postoperative sepsis per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges with an operating room procedure,^a age 18 and over, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2007
				Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		16.3	0.1	15.9	0.1	17.8	0.3	19.0	0.9	16.5	0.4
Age	18-44	12.9	0.3	12.6	0.3	13.7	0.7	15.7	1.9	13.7	0.8
	45-64	14.1	0.2	13.6	0.2	15.9	0.5	15.7	1.3	13.4	0.6
	65 and over	19.3	0.2	19.1	0.2	19.1	0.5	22.3	1.3	19.8	0.7
	65-69	17.0	0.3	16.4	0.3	21.1	0.9	17.2	2.6	18.0	1.2
	70-74	16.1	0.3	15.9	0.3	15.9	1.0	23.3	2.4	14.9	1.2
	75-79	20.6	0.3	20.7	0.4	16.9	1.2	15.6	3.0	22.6	1.4
	80-84	23.9	0.4	23.2	0.5	23.4	1.7	32.8	3.8	26.8	2.0
	85 and over	23.4	0.7	23.4	0.7	21.2	2.0	35.8	4.9	24.0	3.0
Gender	Male	19.1	0.2	19.1	0.2	19.6	0.5	23.5	1.4	17.1	0.6
Gender	Female	14.4	0.1	14.0	0.2	14.7	0.4	15.0	1.1	15.3	0.5
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	16.7	0.2	16.4	0.2	16.8	0.4	27.2	2.3	17.5	0.6
	Second quartile	15.7	0.2	15.2	0.2	18.8	0.7	17.1	2.1	15.5	0.9
	Third quartile	15.7	0.2	15.1	0.2	21.3	0.9	19.7	1.6	14.4	0.9
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	17.0	0.2	16.8	0.2	16.3	1.0	16.5	1.4	17.7	1.1
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	16.9	0.2	16.0	0.3	18.2	0.5	19.8	1.2	17.4	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	17.5	0.2	17.3	0.2	17.7	0.7	14.8	1.8	18.4	1.1
	Medium metropolitan	15.4	0.3	15.0	0.3	17.0	1.0	24.2	2.3	17.0	1.0
	Small metropolitan	14.6	0.3	14.1	0.4	20.3	1.1	DSU	DSU	13.6	1.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	15.0	0.3	15.1	0.3	15.2	1.3	DSU	DSU	13.3	1.5
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	16.0	0.4	16.0	0.4	17.7	1.4	46.2	6.8	DSU	DSU
Expected payment source	Private	15.1	0.2	14.5	0.2	17.7	0.6	16.5	1.5	14.8	0.8
	Medicare	16.7	0.1	16.4	0.1	17.6	0.4	20.3	1.2	17.3	0.6
	Medicaid	19.6	0.5	18.6	0.7	20.7	1.0	23.3	2.6	21.1	1.4
	Other	15.0	0.6	16.4	0.8	15.3	1.8	DSU	DSU	8.0	2.0
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	14.5	0.7	13.0	0.9	17.5	1.9	27.8	6.4	17.3	1.9
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	15.6	0.3	15.2	0.3	15.9	0.9	18.9	2.0	17.6	0.9
	Midwest	16.4	0.2	16.1	0.2	19.5	0.7	DSU	DSU	12.4	1.9
	South	16.7	0.2	16.4	0.2	17.9	0.4	15.5	2.0	15.6	0.6
	West	15.7	0.3	14.8	0.3	15.6	1.2	20.9	1.1	17.9	0.8
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	16.1	0.1	15.8	0.1	17.5	0.4	18.0	1.0	16.7	0.6
	Private, for profit	17.1	0.3	17.0	0.3	16.6	0.7	28.8	2.8	14.7	0.8
	Public	16.4	0.3	15.0	0.4	21.6	0.9	18.3	2.4	19.0	1.1
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	17.3	0.2	16.8	0.2	18.3	0.5	20.8	1.3	17.1	0.7
Teaching status of hospital	Non teaching	15.8	0.1	15.4	0.1	17.6	0.4	17.7	1.1	16.1	0.5
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	17.8	0.2	17.3	0.2	18.3	0.5	19.5	1.1	18.4	0.6
	Large fringe metropolitan	16.8	0.2	16.7	0.3	17.5	0.7	18.6	2.3	16.3	1.2
	Medium metropolitan	14.7	0.2	14.7	0.3	14.8	0.9	19.4	2.3	13.5	0.9
	Small metropolitan	16.3	0.3	15.9	0.3	22.9	1.0	DSU	DSU	11.2	1.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	11.9	0.4	11.6	0.4	13.3	1.5	15.1	4.4	11.9	2.4
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	11.5	0.8	11.2	0.9	16.4	3.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	13.2	0.3	12.0	0.4	18.8	1.1	24.4	3.3	18.7	1.6
	100-299	15.2	0.2	14.7	0.2	17.7	0.6	20.8	1.4	14.7	0.8
	300-499	16.5	0.2	16.5	0.2	16.4	0.6	19.8	1.6	16.1	0.8
	500 or more	18.3	0.2	18.0	0.2	19.5	0.6	14.1	1.7	17.8	0.7

^aExcludes patients admitted for infection; patients with cancer or immunocompromised states; obstetric conditions; stays under 4 days; and admissions specifically for sepsis.� Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, and diagnosis-related group (DRG) clusters.� When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, comorbidities, and DRG clusters; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, comorbidities, and DRG clusters.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, disparities analysis file, 2007, and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1. The analysis file is designed to provide national estimates on disparities using weighted records from a sample of hospitals from the following 26 States: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Page last reviewed October 2014

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