Table T3_2_1_6-1

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_2_1_6.1
Postoperative respiratory failure per 1,000 elective-surgery admissions,^a age 18 and over,^b United States, 2000, 2004–2009
		2009		2008		2007		2006		2005		2004		2000
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		9.81	0.04	9.46	0.04	9.92	0.05	10.12	0.05	9.98	0.05	10.22	0.05	8.95	0.05
Age	18–44	5.32	0.07	4.95	0.07	4.63	0.07	4.53	0.07	4.44	0.07	4.76	0.07	3.83	0.07
	45–64	8.44	0.06	7.91	0.06	8.46	0.07	8.62	0.07	8.44	0.07	8.73	0.07	7.57	0.08
	65 and over	13.90	0.08	13.79	0.08	14.52	0.09	14.89	0.10	14.65	0.09	14.68	0.10	13.25	0.10
	65–69	11.45	0.13	11.14	0.14	11.54	0.15	12.17	0.16	11.33	0.16	12.09	0.17	10.45	0.18
	70–74	12.36	0.15	12.53	0.16	13.10	0.17	13.68	0.18	13.28	0.18	12.91	0.18	12.06	0.18
	75–79	14.75	0.18	15.02	0.18	15.50	0.19	15.88	0.20	15.14	0.20	14.90	0.20	13.79	0.21
	80–84	17.58	0.24	16.66	0.24	18.25	0.25	17.35	0.27	18.64	0.26	18.58	0.28	17.37	0.29
	85 and over	20.29	0.34	19.78	0.35	20.30	0.36	20.95	0.39	21.46	0.40	21.41	0.41	17.70	0.42
Gender	Male	13.19	0.08	12.87	0.08	13.37	0.09	13.55	0.09	13.53	0.09	13.74	0.09	12.06	0.10
Gender	Female	7.96	0.05	7.50	0.05	7.96	0.05	8.02	0.05	7.76	0.05	7.83	0.05	6.68	0.06
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	10.30	0.08	10.04	0.08	10.79	0.09	10.91	0.10	11.05	0.10	10.98	0.10	9.78	0.11
	Second quartile	10.20	0.08	9.43	0.08	10.23	0.09	10.42	0.10	10.18	0.10	10.73	0.09	9.05	0.10
	Third quartile	9.79	0.08	9.52	0.09	9.87	0.09	10.05	0.09	9.84	0.09	10.04	0.10	9.04	0.11
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	8.75	0.09	8.79	0.09	8.73	0.09	9.06	0.10	8.87	0.10	9.02	0.10	7.97	0.10
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	9.68	0.08	9.67	0.08	9.88	0.09	10.24	0.10	10.14	0.09	10.14	0.10	9.41	0.10
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.17	0.09	9.64	0.09	9.77	0.09	10.26	0.10	9.61	0.10	10.62	0.10	9.14	0.10
	Medium metropolitan	10.02	0.10	9.92	0.10	10.78	0.10	10.55	0.11	10.36	0.11	10.57	0.11	8.62	0.13
	Small metropolitan	9.33	0.13	8.60	0.13	9.28	0.14	9.66	0.15	10.06	0.16	9.93	0.15	8.36	0.17
	Micropolitan	9.78	0.11	8.66	0.12	9.38	0.13	9.99	0.14	9.16	0.14	9.31	0.14	8.46	0.16
	Nonmetropolitan	9.30	0.14	9.45	0.14	10.03	0.15	9.07	0.16	10.65	0.17	10.21	0.16	8.83	0.18
Expected payment source	Private insurance	8.67	0.07	8.24	0.07	8.83	0.08	8.76	0.09	8.73	0.09	9.11	0.09	7.98	0.09
	Medicare	10.00	0.05	9.74	0.06	10.25	0.06	10.47	0.06	10.38	0.06	10.64	0.07	9.23	0.07
	Medicaid	13.70	0.18	13.53	0.19	12.84	0.21	14.76	0.22	14.45	0.22	14.60	0.22	13.00	0.25
	Other insurance	10.42	0.24	10.30	0.24	9.91	0.27	9.98	0.28	8.87	0.30	8.75	0.29	7.63	0.31
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	11.90	0.29	10.81	0.29	11.76	0.33	11.06	0.35	9.94	0.33	9.04	0.34	11.34	0.38
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	10.87	0.11	9.07	0.10	9.14	0.11	10.90	0.12	9.48	0.12	10.07	0.12	8.50	0.12
	Midwest	9.94	0.08	9.02	0.08	9.53	0.09	9.39	0.09	9.76	0.10	10.69	0.10	8.24	0.10
	South	9.44	0.07	10.15	0.07	11.01	0.07	10.75	0.08	10.77	0.08	10.38	0.08	9.59	0.09
	West	9.53	0.09	9.09	0.09	9.08	0.10	9.22	0.11	9.28	0.10	9.37	0.11	9.14	0.11
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	9.68	0.05	9.18	0.05	9.72	0.05	9.87	0.06	9.62	0.06	9.85	0.06	8.49	0.06
	Private, for profit	9.78	0.10	8.59	0.12	9.92	0.12	10.86	0.13	11.91	0.13	11.34	0.14	10.38	0.16
	Public	10.69	0.13	11.68	0.11	11.24	0.13	10.95	0.15	9.92	0.14	11.43	0.14	11.00	0.16
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	10.59	0.07	10.63	0.07	10.21	0.07	10.26	0.08	10.09	0.08	10.75	0.08	9.35	0.09
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	9.40	0.05	8.69	0.05	9.74	0.06	10.03	0.06	9.92	0.06	9.92	0.06	8.75	0.06
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	10.10	0.07	10.05	0.07	9.76	0.07	10.37	0.08	10.22	0.08	10.46	0.08	9.27	0.08
	Large fringe metropolitan	10.06	0.10	9.37	0.10	10.38	0.12	9.93	0.11	9.85	0.12	10.16	0.12	9.45	0.11
	Medium metropolitan	10.22	0.09	9.93	0.09	10.79	0.10	10.97	0.10	10.14	0.10	11.12	0.10	8.57	0.12
	Small metropolitan	8.78	0.13	7.96	0.13	9.47	0.13	9.54	0.15	10.22	0.16	9.89	0.14	9.23	0.16
	Micropolitan	8.41	0.15	7.51	0.15	8.92	0.16	8.17	0.18	8.81	0.16	8.08	0.17	7.20	0.19
	Nonmetropolitan	6.62	0.38	6.99	0.35	6.57	0.35	5.59	0.38	8.18	0.37	6.67	0.36	6.83	0.34
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	6.95	0.12	6.44	0.14	6.42	0.15	7.09	0.15	7.13	0.14	7.10	0.16	7.09	0.16
	100–299	9.46	0.07	8.94	0.08	9.45	0.08	9.73	0.09	11.14	0.08	9.95	0.08	8.95	0.09
	300–499	10.86	0.08	9.49	0.08	10.40	0.08	10.95	0.09	10.20	0.09	11.08	0.09	9.92	0.10
	500 or more	10.38	0.08	10.92	0.08	11.30	0.09	10.73	0.09	9.25	0.10	10.61	0.10	8.54	0.11

^a The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software requires that the respiratory failure 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 tracheostomy is not verifiable as following surgery. Consistent with the AHRQ PSI software, excludes admissions with respiratory disease, circulatory disease, craniofacial anomalies, or neuromuscular disorders; obstetric admissions; and admissions in which the tracheostomy is the only operating room procedure.

^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).

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 4.1.

Page last reviewed June 2013

Internet Citation: Table T3_2_1_6-1: 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_2_1_6-1.html