National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2006: Table 151

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Table 151
Postoperative physiologic and metabolic derangements per 1,000 elective-surgery discharges (excluding some serious disease^a and obstetric admissions), by race/ethnicity, United States, 2003

				Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE	Rate^b	SE
Total		1.45	0.05	1.35	0.05	1.79	0.11	2.78	0.17	1.86	0.10
Age	0-17	1.13	0.09	0.89	0.10	1.64	0.24	1.93	0.49	1.54	0.18
	18-44	0.96	0.05	0.76	0.05	1.48	0.11	2.35	0.28	1.40	0.12
	45-64	1.32	0.06	1.22	0.05	1.72	0.16	2.32	0.28	1.63	0.16
	65 and over	1.88	0.06	1.76	0.06	2.34	0.21	3.73	0.31	2.69	0.17
Age	65-69	1.65	0.08	1.47	0.08	2.11	0.33	3.95	0.59	2.85	0.30
	70-74	1.91	0.08	1.81	0.08	2.23	0.35	*	*	3.11	0.29
	75-79	2.04	0.09	1.93	0.08	2.52	0.40	3.98	0.61	2.51	0.33
	80-84	1.97	0.10	1.85	0.10	2.27	0.53	7.49	0.79	2.10	0.42
	85 and over	1.89	0.13	1.81	0.13	3.53	0.67	*	*	*	*
Gender	Male	1.93	0.07	1.79	0.06	2.60	0.18	4.00	0.30	2.51	0.15
Gender	Female	1.11	0.05	1.02	0.04	1.38	0.10	1.99	0.19	1.43	0.10
Median income of patient's ZIP Code	Less than $25,000	2.15	0.16	1.91	0.21	2.27	0.26	4.59	1.21	2.35	0.30
	$25,000-$34,999	1.65	0.07	1.52	0.07	1.77	0.17	4.51	0.60	2.21	0.17
	$35,000-$44,999	1.41	0.06	1.31	0.06	1.75	0.16	4.18	0.36	1.66	0.16
	$45,000 or more	1.38	0.05	1.32	0.05	1.67	0.14	2.08	0.20	1.65	0.12
Location of patient residence	Metropolitan-large	1.66	0.06	1.55	0.05	1.91	0.12	2.70	0.20	1.98	0.10
	Metropolitan-small	1.25	0.06	1.16	0.05	1.61	0.18	2.73	0.32	1.74	0.18
	Micropolitan	1.21	0.07	1.19	0.07	1.24	0.34	2.89	0.55	1.24	0.35
	Noncore	1.16	0.08	1.13	0.08	1.40	0.41	13.02	2.38	*	*
Expected payment source	Private insurance	0.98	0.04	0.96	0.04	0.98	0.09	1.38	0.18	1.23	0.10
	Medicare	2.05	0.08	1.84	0.07	3.00	0.24	4.71	0.39	3.23	0.22
	Medicaid	1.73	0.08	1.36	0.10	2.18	0.18	4.81	0.46	1.92	0.18
	Other insurance	0.81	0.07	0.77	0.09	1.76	0.22	*	*	*	*
	Uninsured/self pay/no charge	1.00	0.11	1.06	0.13	*	*	*	*	0.97	0.28
Region of inpatient treatment	Northeast	1.13	0.06	1.08	0.06	1.90	0.17	*	*	1.17	0.17
	Midwest	1.51	0.06	1.47	0.06	1.87	0.21	2.84	0.83	2.12	0.41
	South	1.29	0.06	1.18	0.05	1.65	0.13	*	*	1.68	0.13
	West	2.12	0.07	1.94	0.07	2.09	0.22	3.50	0.20	2.31	0.14
Ownership/control of hospital	Private, not-for-profit	1.33	0.05	1.28	0.05	1.56	0.11	2.56	0.19	1.55	0.11
	Private, for-profit	1.75	0.07	1.58	0.07	2.13	0.22	4.19	0.47	2.01	0.18
	Public	2.01	0.08	1.69	0.08	2.65	0.23	2.85	0.47	2.94	0.20
Teaching status of hospital	Teaching	1.71	0.06	1.59	0.06	2.11	0.14	2.80	0.24	2.19	0.14
Teaching status of hospital	Non-teaching	1.30	0.05	1.22	0.05	1.52	0.12	2.76	0.22	1.68	0.11
Location of hospital	Metropolitan-large	1.76	0.06	1.66	0.05	2.00	0.12	2.80	0.20	2.18	0.11
	Metropolitan-small	1.12	0.06	1.06	0.05	1.44	0.17	3.17	0.31	1.12	0.17
	Micropolitan	0.72	0.08	0.75	0.08	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Noncore	0.48	0.13	0.55	0.13	*	*	*	*	*	*
Bed size of hospital	Less than 100	0.64	0.07	0.62	0.07	*	*	*	*	0.97	0.25
	100-299	1.22	0.05	1.10	0.05	1.32	0.14	3.19	0.25	1.76	0.12
	300-499	1.55	0.06	1.50	0.06	1.65	0.15	2.86	0.28	1.61	0.17
	500 or more	1.89	0.07	1.77	0.06	2.54	0.17	2.50	0.36	2.36	0.16

^a That is, excluding patients with diabetic coma and patients with renal failure who also were diagnosed with AMI, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, shock, hemorrhage, or gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

^b Estimates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, comorbidities, and DRG clusters. When reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender, comorbidities, and DRG clusters; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age, comorbidities, and DRG clusters.

* Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality or confidentiality.

Key: API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, disparities analysis file, 2003. This file is designed to provide national estimates on disparities using weighted records from a sample of hospitals from the following 23 States: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, KS, MD, MA, MI, MO, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, and WI.

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