2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports: Data Tables Appendix, Table 6_2

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2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
Data Tables Appendix

Table 6_2_3.4
Obstetric trauma^a per 1,000 instrument-assisted vaginal deliveries,^b 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	146.6	3.0	127.0	4.4	142.4	4.0	151.0	4.4	161.3	4.9
	2007	143.7	3.1	117.0	4.1	133.4	4.0	145.2	4.5	176.4	5.1
	2006	154.2	2.5	124.1	4.0	141.9	3.9	160.3	3.8	186.7	4.7
	2005	160.4	2.6	132.9	4.0	153.8	4.1	170.4	4.1	181.6	4.7
	2004	171.7	2.7	138.5	4.0	164.0	4.1	178.1	4.2	196.9	4.8
	2003	176.9	3.1	145.7	4.7	159.8	4.1	176.8	4.1	214.2	5.3
	2002	180.0	2.6	146.3	4.0	167.3	4.0	189.5	4.2	203.1	5.0
	2001	188.1	2.8	154.7	4.2	177.9	3.9	189.4	4.2	221.0	5.1
	2000	197.2	3.1	165.2	4.9	187.3	4.1	203.5	4.1	223.1	5.3

^a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software, obstetric trauma must involve 3rd or 4th degree lacerations.

^b. Rates are adjusted by age using U.S. hospitalizations 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.