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Indicator Report - Diabetes Hospitalizations
Why Is This Important?
Diabetes is one of many chronic conditions in which hospitalization is preventable with environmental and social support for healthy behaviors and choices, better self-management, effective management support on a daily basis, and access to regular ambulatory care. Hospitalization for diabetes and its complications represent the most severe cases. Hospitalization is costly for individuals as well as for families and society. Based on 2007 American Diabetes Association estimates, direct health care costs for diabetes and its complications was about $1.7 billion in New Mexico alone. This includes the costs of hospitalization but does not include costs due to reduced work performance, lost work days, reduced worker productivity and care provided by non-paid caregivers (such as family members). Thus, this is an underestimate of diabetes-related costs.Diabetes Hospitalizations First-Listed Diagnosis, by Age Group 2006 to 2008
Data Notes
Diseases listed on hospital discharge records are assigned specific ICD codes. Under the ICD, the primary condition leading to the hospitalization is listed first. There may also be up to nine additional conditions which contributed to the hospitalization. These data are based on the ICD codes from the discharge records. Except for age-specific rates, rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US Standard Populations.Data Sources
Population Source: Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) Population Estimates, University of New Mexico. http://www.unm.edu/~bber/. Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data, New Mexico Health Policy Commission, www.hpc.state.nm.us.Other Views
- First-Listed Diagnosis, by Age Group 2006 to 2008
- First-Listed Diagnosis, by NM Health & Human Services Region 2006 to 2008
- Diabetes as Any-Listed Diagnosis, by Age 2006 to 2008
- Any-Listed Diagnosis, by NM Health & Human Services Region 2006 to 2008
Definition
The number of hospital inpatient discharges per 10,000 persons where diabetes, ICD9-CM codes 250 - 250.9, was either the primary or a contributing condition.How We Calculated the Rates
| Numerator: | Number of diabetes-related hospital discharges within a given year. Discharges are grouped as "any-listed" and "first-listed". "Any-listed" discharges are all discharges in which diabetes was one of the nine possible diagnoses listed for the hospitalizations. "First-listed" discharges include only the discharges in which diabetes was the first diagnosis listed (coded) for the hospitalizations. Numerator data are from the NM Hospital Inpatient Discharge Public Use data files 2006 to 2008, NM Health Policy Commission. |
| Denominator: | Number of persons living in NM in a given year who belong within the specified age group or live within the five NM Health and Human Services regions (1 to 10 counties in a region) |
Page Content Updated On 04/10/2009,
Published on 11/11/10
