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2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
Data Tables Appendix

Table 12_2_6.1_2
Postoperative respiratory failure per 1,000 elective-surgery admissions,a age 18 and over,b by race/ethnicity, United States, 2008
        Non-Hispanic    
    Total White Black API Hispanic, all races
Population group Rate SE Rate SE Rate SE Rate SE Rate SE
Total   9.5 0.0 9.2 0.0 11.2 0.1 11.2 0.3 10.8 0.2
Age 18-44 4.7 0.1 4.2 0.1 6.4 0.2 5.4 0.4 5.5 0.2
45-64 8.2 0.1 8.0 0.1 9.2 0.2 9.2 0.5 8.3 0.2
65 and over 13.7 0.1 13.6 0.1 13.4 0.3 15.8 0.6 15.4 0.4
  65-69 11.0 0.1 11.0 0.2 11.8 0.4 10.3 1.1 11.2 0.6
  70-74 12.4 0.2 12.3 0.2 11.1 0.5 15.7 1.2 14.9 0.7
  75-79 14.6 0.2 14.2 0.2 16.0 0.6 17.3 1.3 18.2 0.8
  80-84 16.7 0.2 16.4 0.3 17.1 0.9 21.6 1.8 19.1 1.1
  85 and over 20.4 0.3 20.2 0.4 20.2 1.3 24.2 3.0 25.8 1.6
Gender Male 12.8 0.1 12.6 0.1 13.5 0.2 16.1 0.6 12.8 0.3
Female 7.6 0.0 7.7 0.1 7.5 0.1 7.7 0.3 7.2 0.2
Median income of patient's ZIP Code First quartile (lowest income) 10.4 0.1 10.2 0.1 11.1 0.2 10.4 0.9 11.1 0.3
Second quartile 9.3 0.1 9.1 0.1 11.0 0.3 11.9 0.7 10.6 0.3
Third quartile 9.4 0.1 9.1 0.1 11.9 0.3 10.9 0.7 10.8 0.4
Fourth quartile (highest income) 8.9 0.1 8.6 0.1 10.8 0.4 11.4 0.5 9.9 0.5
Location of patient residence Large central metropolitan 9.8 0.1 9.2 0.1 10.9 0.2 11.0 0.5 11.3 0.2
Large fringe metropolitan 10.1 0.1 9.7 0.1 12.8 0.3 9.8 0.7 11.3 0.5
Medium metropolitan 9.4 0.1 9.3 0.1 10.1 0.4 12.0 0.7 10.2 0.4
Small metropolitan 8.6 0.1 8.2 0.1 12.1 0.5 16.8 2.1 8.8 0.6
Micropolitan 9.0 0.1 8.9 0.1 9.5 0.5 14.0 1.3 10.3 0.7
Noncore 9.4 0.1 9.4 0.1 9.3 0.6 6.8 1.8 8.7 0.8
Expected payment source Private insurance 8.6 0.1 8.2 0.1 11.0 0.3 10.4 0.5 9.8 0.3
Medicare 9.7 0.1 9.6 0.1 10.2 0.2 11.5 0.4 10.8 0.2
Medicaid 13.7 0.2 12.8 0.2 16.1 0.4 10.5 1.1 14.6 0.5
Other insurance 9.8 0.3 9.3 0.3 12.4 0.8 14.8 2.2 9.6 0.8
Uninsured/self-pay/no charge 9.8 0.3 9.4 0.4 11.6 0.9 20.0 2.5 10.3 0.8
Region of inpatient treatment Northeast 9.8 0.1 9.5 0.1 12.6 0.4 10.8 0.9 9.5 0.6
Midwest 9.2 0.1 8.9 0.1 11.8 0.3 11.4 1.4 12.2 0.8
South 10.0 0.1 9.7 0.1 10.8 0.2 12.2 0.7 11.1 0.2
West 8.9 0.1 8.4 0.1 10.0 0.4 11.0 0.4 10.5 0.3
Ownership/control of hospital Private, not for profit 9.3 0.0 9.0 0.1 11.3 0.2 11.2 0.4 10.3 0.2
Private, for profit 9.2 0.1 9.0 0.1 9.4 0.3 11.5 0.9 9.5 0.3
Public 11.4 0.1 10.9 0.1 13.2 0.4 11.0 0.9 14.4 0.4
Teaching status of hospital Teaching 10.2 0.1 9.8 0.1 12.1 0.2 11.5 0.5 11.8 0.3
Nonteaching 9.2 0.1 8.9 0.1 10.5 0.2 11.0 0.4 10.2 0.2
Location of hospital Large central metropolitan 10.2 0.1 9.8 0.1 11.2 0.2 11.3 0.4 11.4 0.2
Large fringe metropolitan 10.0 0.1 9.5 0.1 12.6 0.3 10.9 0.9 10.2 0.5
Medium metropolitan 9.3 0.1 9.1 0.1 10.5 0.3 10.8 0.7 9.9 0.4
Small metropolitan 8.6 0.1 8.4 0.1 10.8 0.5 16.6 2.2 8.9 0.7
Micropolitan 7.9 0.2 7.9 0.2 7.2 0.7 13.2 1.7 8.7 1.0
Noncore 7.3 0.3 7.3 0.3 8.3 1.4 DSU DSU DSU DSU
Bed size of hospital Less than 100 6.7 0.1 6.9 0.1 5.9 0.5 9.0 1.0 5.2 0.5
100-299 9.2 0.1 8.9 0.1 10.2 0.2 11.4 0.5 9.8 0.3
300-499 9.8 0.1 9.3 0.1 11.8 0.2 11.3 0.5 11.9 0.3
500 or more 10.7 0.1 10.3 0.1 12.6 0.3 11.8 0.8 12.1 0.3

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, the following cases are excluded: 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).

DSU - 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 (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, State Inpatient Databases, disparities analysis file, 2007, and AHRQ Quality Indicators, modified version 4.1. The analysis file is designed to provide national estimates on disparities using weighted records from a sample of hospitals from the following 31 States: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

 

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