Table T3_1_1_1-1

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 3_1_1_1.1
Postoperative sepsis per 1,000 elective-surgery admissions of length 4 or more days,^a age 18 and over,^b United States, 2008–2009
		2009		2008
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		15.31	0.12	14.58	0.12
Age	18–44	10.53	0.28	11.42	0.28
	45–64	13.00	0.18	12.09	0.18
	65 and over	18.52	0.19	17.50	0.19
	65–69	15.05	0.33	13.65	0.33
	70–74	17.26	0.36	15.81	0.36
	75–79	20.35	0.42	18.77	0.41
	80–84	19.49	0.51	21.21	0.51
	85 and over	27.09	0.72	24.46	0.71
Gender	Male	18.25	0.20	17.24	0.20
Gender	Female	12.97	0.15	12.54	0.15
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	14.93	0.23	15.02	0.23
	Second quartile	16.02	0.23	14.34	0.22
	Third quartile	14.97	0.24	14.76	0.25
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	15.22	0.26	14.19	0.26
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	17.12	0.24	16.32	0.24
	Large fringe metropolitan	16.38	0.25	14.13	0.25
	Medium metropolitan	14.67	0.27	15.96	0.27
	Small metropolitan	14.37	0.38	12.81	0.37
	Micropolitan	13.65	0.32	12.47	0.33
	Nonmetropolitan	12.66	0.40	13.02	0.40
Expected payment source	Private insurance	14.08	0.22	13.84	0.21
	Medicare	15.83	0.16	14.86	0.16
	Medicaid	18.71	0.52	19.29	0.51
	Other insurance	13.62	0.69	13.07	0.67
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	13.04	0.81	9.09	0.80
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	15.22	0.30	15.16	0.29
	Midwest	14.08	0.23	12.47	0.23
	South	15.95	0.20	15.40	0.20
	West	15.84	0.27	15.63	0.28
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	14.78	0.14	14.43	0.14
	Private, for profit	18.62	0.30	16.23	0.31
	Public	14.19	0.39	13.54	0.34
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	14.73	0.20	14.88	0.19
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	15.62	0.15	14.40	0.15
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	16.86	0.19	15.36	0.19
	Large fringe metropolitan	17.29	0.29	14.29	0.29
	Medium metropolitan	13.75	0.24	15.68	0.25
	Small metropolitan	13.47	0.35	12.93	0.37
	Micropolitan	11.91	0.45	10.90	0.43
	Nonmetropolitan	7.12	1.12	9.16	1.05
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	15.41	0.36	12.32	0.37
	100–299	16.15	0.21	14.84	0.21
	300–499	16.35	0.23	15.26	0.22
	500 or more	13.35	0.22	14.37	0.22

^a The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software requires that the sepsis be reported as a secondary diagnosis (rather than the principal diagnosis), but unlike the AHRQ PSI software, the secondary diagnosis could be present on admission. In addition, the sepsis is not verifiable as following surgery. Consistent with the AHRQ PSI software, admissions with a principal diagnosis of infection, admissions with cancer or in an immunocompromised state, and obstetric admissions are excluded.

^b Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, major diagnostic category (MDC), diagnosis-related group (DRG), and transfers into the hospital. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, comorbidities, MDC, DRG, and transfers into the hospital; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, comorbidities, MDC, DRG, and transfers into the hospital. The AHRQ PSI software was modified to not use the present on admission (POA) indicators (or estimates of the likelihood of POA for secondary diagnosis). Rates prior to 2008 are not reported because of International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9-CM) coding changes.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 4.1.

Page last reviewed June 2013

Internet Citation: Table T3_1_1_1-1: 2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. June 2013. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr12/3_patientsafety/T3_1_1_1-1.html