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2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
Data Tables Appendix

Table 4_3_2.2_4
Admissions with diabetes with short-term complicationsa per 100,000 population,b ages 6-17, by income, United States, 2000-2008
        Median income of patient's ZIP Code
    Total First quartile (lowest income) Second quartile Third quartile Fourth quartile (highest income)
Data year   Rate SE Rate SE Rate SE Rate SE Rate SE
Data year 2008 26.5 2.7 37.7 5.3 28.9 3.1 24.5 3.1 15.4 2.3
  2007 28.9 2.9 37.5 3.6 31.3 3.5 27.0 3.8 19.9 3.5
  2006 31.8 2.8 42.6 3.9 35.8 3.3 30.2 3.4 19.7 3.0
  2005 36.1 4.0 41.9 4.4 38.9 4.3 35.0 4.8 29.3 5.4
  2004 31.5 2.9 41.9 4.9 36.4 3.6 28.2 3.3 19.6 2.6
  2003 31.7 2.8 39.3 4.3 36.3 3.7 31.0 2.9 20.4 2.6
  2002 28.2 2.3 34.1 3.3 34.7 3.9 26.4 2.7 17.4 2.1
  2001 29.0 2.3 32.7 3.0 36.8 3.6 26.4 2.7 19.3 2.3
  2000 27.1 1.8 39.3 3.2 30.8 2.6 26.5 2.6 15.1 2.1

a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDI) software, diabetes must be the principal diagnosis.  Short-term complications include ketoacidosis, hyperosmolarity, and coma. Transfers from other institutions and obstetric admissions are excluded.

b. Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. resident population for 2000 as the U.S. standard population.

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, modified version 4.1.

 

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