Table 12_3_2-2

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_3_2.2
Accidental puncture or laceration during procedure per 1,000 discharges, under age 18,^a United States, 2000, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		0.85	0.02	0.93	0.02	0.88	0.01	0.80	0.02	0.68	0.02
Age	0-4	0.70	0.02	0.81	0.02	0.78	0.02	0.70	0.02	0.60	0.02
	5-9	0.83	0.05	0.82	0.05	0.88	0.04	0.71	0.05	0.58	0.05
	10-14	1.42	0.06	1.37	0.06	1.18	0.04	0.94	0.05	0.94	0.06
	15-17	1.16	0.06	1.28	0.06	1.15	0.05	1.26	0.05	0.94	0.06
Gender	Male	0.98	0.02	1.06	0.02	1.00	0.02	0.92	0.02	0.75	0.02
Gender	Female	0.65	0.02	0.73	0.02	0.72	0.02	0.63	0.02	0.58	0.02
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	0.79	0.03	1.00	0.03	0.99	0.03	0.84	0.03	0.71	0.03
	Second quartile	1.01	0.03	0.99	0.03	0.85	0.03	0.77	0.03	0.74	0.03
	Third quartile	0.80	0.03	0.84	0.03	0.96	0.03	0.85	0.03	0.70	0.03
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	0.79	0.03	0.87	0.03	0.73	0.03	0.72	0.03	0.55	0.03
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	0.78	0.03	0.80	0.03	0.80	0.03	0.64	0.03	0.49	0.03
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.74	0.03	0.80	0.03	0.80	0.03	0.71	0.03	0.60	0.03
	Medium metropolitan	0.97	0.04	1.01	0.03	0.93	0.03	1.04	0.03	0.87	0.04
	Small metropolitan	0.85	0.06	0.93	0.06	1.02	0.05	0.69	0.05	0.70	0.05
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	1.04	0.05	1.16	0.05	0.90	0.04	0.86	0.05	1.12	0.06
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	1.02	0.07	1.22	0.06	1.22	0.05	1.11	0.06	0.92	0.07
Expected payment source	Private insurance	0.85	0.02	0.93	0.02	0.88	0.02	0.80	0.02	0.65	0.02
	Medicare	1.63	0.24	2.04	0.25	1.43	0.21	2.32	0.27	DSU	DSU
	Medicaid	0.87	0.02	0.92	0.03	0.86	0.02	0.78	0.02	0.71	0.03
	Other insurance	0.51	0.08	1.04	0.08	1.03	0.06	0.91	0.08	0.99	0.10
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	0.86	0.09	0.76	0.09	0.92	0.08	0.76	0.08	0.59	0.08
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	0.80	0.04	0.96	0.03	0.76	0.03	0.80	0.04	0.66	0.04
	Midwest	0.99	0.03	0.79	0.04	1.14	0.03	0.59	0.03	0.71	0.03
	South	0.77	0.02	1.00	0.03	0.75	0.02	0.81	0.02	0.57	0.03
	West	0.91	0.04	0.91	0.04	0.93	0.03	0.96	0.03	0.77	0.03
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	0.84	0.02	0.92	0.02	0.92	0.02	0.75	0.02	0.62	0.02
	Private, for profit	0.76	0.05	0.65	0.05	0.43	0.06	1.14	0.05	0.63	0.06
	Public	0.96	0.04	1.17	0.04	0.85	0.04	0.85	0.04	1.03	0.04
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	0.82	0.02	0.84	0.02	0.88	0.02	0.69	0.02	0.67	0.02
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	0.91	0.03	1.06	0.03	0.90	0.02	0.99	0.03	0.68	0.02
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	0.86	0.02	0.84	0.02	0.88	0.02	0.66	0.02	0.63	0.02
	Large fringe metropolitan	0.67	0.03	0.90	0.05	0.60	0.04	0.64	0.05	0.58	0.04
	Medium metropolitan	0.84	0.04	1.04	0.03	1.00	0.03	1.02	0.03	0.82	0.04
	Small metropolitan	1.07	0.06	1.06	0.07	0.86	0.06	0.92	0.05	0.58	0.06
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	1.36	0.08	1.17	0.09	1.18	0.09	1.44	0.08	1.23	0.09
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	0.95	0.19	2.05	0.20	2.02	0.17	1.78	0.18	1.41	0.14
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	1.38	0.09	1.10	0.09	0.97	0.06	1.10	0.07	1.31	0.07
	100-299	0.91	0.03	0.78	0.03	1.02	0.02	0.90	0.03	0.68	0.03
	300-499	0.83	0.03	1.09	0.03	0.66	0.02	0.87	0.03	0.65	0.03
	500 or more	0.77	0.03	0.91	0.03	0.96	0.03	0.63	0.02	0.57	0.03

^a Excludes obstetric admissions, normal newborns, and neonates with a birth weight less than 500 grams.� Also excludes admissions specifically for such problems, such as cases from earlier admissions or from other hospitals.� Rates are adjusted by age, gender, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), major diagnostic categories (MDCs), and comorbidities. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, DRGs, MDCs, and comorbidities; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, DRGs, MDCs, and comorbidities.

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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 12_3_2-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/12_patientsafety/T12_3_2-2.html