Table T3_3_1_7-3

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_7.3
Deaths per 1,000 elective-surgery admissions having developed specified complications of care during hospitalization,^a ages 18–89 or obstetric admissions,^b by State, 2000, 2004, 2007–2009
	2009		2008		2007		2004		2000
State	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total	116.2	0.7	122.1	0.7	119.0	0.7	137.9	0.7	159.5	0.7
Arizona	72.3	6.7	75.7	6.7	79.0	6.8	106.0	4.4	135.5	5.5
Arkansas	128.3	8.6	135.4	8.4	103.3	8.2	152.0	6.7	DNC	DNC
California	132.4	1.9	142.2	1.9	145.2	1.9	163.9	2.2	191.6	2.2
Florida	129.4	2.2	132.5	2.2	135.7	2.2	137.8	2.4	160.4	2.5
Georgia	122.7	6.1	126.4	5.9	120.3	5.8	152.4	4.0	172.0	4.3
Hawaii	107.7	19.8	146.7	17.4	166.3	18.0	197.5	11.2	171.2	12.2
Indiana	99.0	5.4	107.5	5.8	111.5	5.8	141.0	4.2	DNC	DNC
Iowa	82.2	10.1	85.9	9.1	100.1	9.2	120.8	6.7	145.6	6.6
Kentucky	113.9	6.0	105.7	5.8	93.9	5.9	122.4	4.7	158.3	5.0
Louisiana	99.9	6.8	126.1	6.6	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC
Maine	125.3	15.9	116.2	16.5	106.9	16.2	DNC	DNC	126.5	10.6
Maryland	103.3	6.8	93.3	6.9	100.7	6.8	133.4	4.5	162.2	5.1
Minnesota	82.6	7.5	74.2	7.2	70.5	7.3	106.1	4.8	DNC	DNC
Nebraska	90.2	11.5	87.7	10.6	92.8	10.6	111.4	8.2	DNC	DNC
Nevada	142.3	10.5	132.9	10.7	114.3	10.9	155.3	7.0	DNC	DNC
New Hampshire	78.9	16.6	64.4	16.1	98.0	15.2	144.0	11.1	DNC	DNC
New Jersey	110.1	5.9	112.5	5.7	101.6	5.9	143.2	3.9	168.7	3.9
North Carolina	127.0	3.4	123.3	3.3	127.6	3.5	143.8	3.8	167.5	4.3
Oregon	119.0	9.7	124.9	9.8	107.2	9.7	137.9	6.2	133.8	7.1
Rhode Island	120.1	19.1	166.4	19.4	141.4	19.1	158.4	10.9	DNC	DNC
South Carolina	107.9	8.5	106.3	8.4	117.3	8.2	150.5	5.8	167.8	6.2
South Dakota	115.4	15.5	152.9	17.5	93.3	20.4	111.2	12.3	DNC	DNC
Tennessee	107.2	5.6	117.6	5.8	110.7	5.7	139.6	4.1	169.8	4.6
Texas	108.7	3.3	111.8	3.4	119.1	3.3	139.6	2.5	161.9	2.8
Virginia	134.6	3.9	122.2	3.8	118.7	3.8	126.3	4.3	149.4	4.6
Wyoming	DSU	DSU	130.2	31.2	110.0	32.2	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC

^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, diagnosis-related group, 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).

DNC - Data were not collected.

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 (HCUP) databases and AHRQ Quality Indicators, modified version 4.1. State estimates are from the State Inpatient Databases (SID), and not all States participate in HCUP. Estimates for the total U.S. are from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which is drawn from the SID and weighted to give national estimates.

Page last reviewed June 2013

Internet Citation: Table T3_3_1_7-3: 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_7-3.html