Table T3_3_1_7-1

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_3_1_7.1
Deaths per 1,000 elective-surgery admissions having developed specified complications of care during hospitalization,^a ages 18–89 or obstetric admissions,^b United States, 2007–2009
		2009		2008		2007
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		116.2	0.7	122.1	0.7	119.0	0.7
Age	18–44	62.8	1.7	67.5	1.7	67.9	1.7
	45–64	96.8	1.2	97.5	1.2	98.2	1.2
	65–89	139.7	1.0	148.6	1.0	143.7	1.0
	65–69	109.7	2.0	110.7	2.0	110.3	2.1
	70–74	123.7	2.1	134.7	2.1	127.8	2.1
	75–79	148.4	2.2	151.9	2.2	150.9	2.1
	80–84	164.6	2.5	172.9	2.5	162.3	2.4
	85–89	171.1	3.3	201.8	3.3	188.9	3.3
Gender	Male	128.6	1.0	135.7	1.0	130.3	1.0
Gender	Female	104.4	1.0	109.4	1.0	109.2	1.0
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	First quartile (lowest income)	114.5	1.5	127.2	1.5	121.5	1.4
	Second quartile	117.0	1.4	118.2	1.3	125.4	1.4
	Third quartile	120.3	1.4	123.4	1.5	116.9	1.5
	Fourth quartile (highest income)	112.6	1.4	120.4	1.5	112.4	1.4
Location of patient residence	Large central metropolitan	120.6	1.3	130.1	1.3	123.3	1.3
	Large fringe metropolitan	114.6	1.5	112.8	1.5	114.5	1.4
	Medium metropolitan	118.5	1.6	127.0	1.6	121.2	1.5
	Small metropolitan	109.5	2.5	120.9	2.5	111.5	2.5
	Micropolitan	113.9	2.2	117.7	2.2	122.0	2.3
	Nonmetropolitan	103.8	2.9	111.3	2.9	113.8	2.9
Expected payment source	Private insurance	110.6	1.6	107.4	1.5	105.6	1.6
	Medicare	115.9	0.9	124.3	0.9	119.5	0.9
	Medicaid	140.8	2.8	142.5	2.9	147.9	2.9
	Other insurance	110.4	5.0	120.0	4.7	112.1	4.9
	Uninsured/self-pay/no charge	112.0	4.8	157.3	5.0	160.8	4.8
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	119.7	1.5	123.9	1.4	117.5	1.5
	Midwest	97.5	1.8	102.4	1.8	92.2	1.8
	South	118.4	1.2	123.9	1.2	125.5	1.1
	West	122.3	1.4	132.5	1.5	129.6	1.5
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not for profit	113.3	0.8	119.8	0.8	114.4	0.8
	Private, for profit	123.3	1.8	120.1	1.9	124.2	1.9
	Public	126.6	2.2	135.7	1.9	138.6	1.9
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	118.1	1.1	124.6	1.1	118.0	1.1
Teaching status of hospital	Nonteaching	115.0	0.9	120.2	1.0	119.8	0.9
Location of hospital	Large central metropolitan	117.8	1.1	124.9	1.0	119.3	1.1
	Large fringe metropolitan	112.0	1.6	114.1	1.7	118.9	1.7
	Medium metropolitan	119.3	1.4	128.5	1.5	122.3	1.5
	Small metropolitan	108.3	2.5	121.5	2.5	112.8	2.4
	Micropolitan	118.2	3.0	106.0	2.8	118.3	2.9
	Nonmetropolitan	96.9	8.2	89.7	8.4	97.9	6.9
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	103.0	2.6	101.2	2.8	110.6	2.8
	100–299	114.2	1.3	120.0	1.3	117.3	1.2
	300–499	121.8	1.3	123.5	1.3	118.5	1.3
	500 or more	115.9	1.3	127.1	1.2	123.8	1.4

^a Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software, complications of care include acute renal failure, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, sepsis, shock, cardiac arrest, gastroentestinal hemorrhage, and acute ulcer. Transfers to another hospital are excluded. The AHRQ PSI software requires that the complication 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 surgery is not verifiable as occurring in the first 2 days of the inpatient stay.

^b Rates are adjusted by age, comorbidities, major diagnostic category (MDC), diagnosis-related group (DRG), and transfers into the hospital. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by 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_3_1_7-1: 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_3_1_7-1.html