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2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
Data Tables Appendix

Table 17_2_3.4
Admissions with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasea per 100,000 population,b age 18 and over, by income, United States, 2005-2008
        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 228.6 5.9 321.2 13.2 258.6 10.5 191.2 9.4 148.6 10.5
  2007 192.5 4.4 275.9 11.6 212.2 8.5 162.3 6.9 119.5 7.5
  2006 199.4 4.6 292.4 12.2 214.1 8.6 166.4 6.8 132.2 8.3
  2005 214.2 5.1 301.1 12.9 236.0 9.8 184.4 7.6 142.7 8.5

a. Consistent with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI) software, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease must be the principal diagnosis.  Transfers from other institutions are excluded. Rates prior to 2005 are not reported because of International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9-CM) coding changes.

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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