National Healthcare Quality Report, 2006: Table 1.108b

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Table 1.108b
Asthma admissions (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 65 years and older, by State, 2002 and 2003
	2003		2002
State	Rate^a	Standard error	Rate^a	Standard error
Total	231.2	7.9	204.0	6.2
Arizona	152.2	4.8	134.0	4.7
California	200.8	2.3	164.0	2.1
Colorado	151.9	5.8	157.8	6.1
Georgia	243.6	5.4	212.7	5.2
Hawaii	218.9	11.4	226.1	13.0
Illinois	259.4	4.1	234.4	4.0
Iowa	126.6	5.4	123.5	5.4
Kentucky	254.6	7.0	220.4	6.7
Maine	157.4	9.1	120.7	8.1
Maryland	205.0	5.7	172.9	5.3
Massachusetts	204.4	4.8	175.3	4.5
Michigan	195.9	4.0	179.2	3.9
Minnesota	163.0	5.6	166.6	5.8
Missouri	150.9	4.4	141.5	4.5
Nebraska	139.6	7.7	121.3	7.6
Nevada	141.7	7.7	147.9	8.7
New Hampshire	105.4	8.1	--	--
New Jersey	235.7	4.5	204.6	4.3
New York	278.3	3.3	258.1	3.3
North Carolina	230.3	4.7	190.2	4.4
Oregon	139.2	5.6	145.4	5.8
Rhode Island	178.9	10.7	155.9	10.0
South Carolina	270.8	8.0	220.7	8.5
Tennessee	229.6	5.5	190.4	5.2
Texas	251.2	4.4	209.1	4.5
Utah	150.5	8.8	107.3	7.5
Vermont	124.9	12.4	86.0	10.5
Virginia	240.3	5.3	205.4	5.1
Washington	131.7	4.4	139.2	4.6
West Virginia	320.4	10.6	214.0	8.9
Wisconsin	156.8	4.7	136.0	4.4

^a Estimates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population. Note: For Kansas, rate biased upward because data element was not available to exclude transfers.

-- Statistic cannot be calculated.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).State estimates are from the State Inpatient Databases (SID); not all States participate in HCUP.Estimates for the total are from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which is drawn from the SID and weighted to give national estimates.

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