2-10.
Reduce the proportion of adults who are hospitalized for vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis.
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2-10. | |
Reduce the proportion of adults who are hospitalized for vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis. |
Target: 14.0 hospitalizations per 10,000 adults aged 65 years and older.
Baseline: 17.5 hospitalizations per 10,000 adults aged 65 years and older were for vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis in 1998 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: 20 percent improvement.
Data source: National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), CDC, NCHS.
|
Adults Aged 65 Years and Older, 1998 |
Hospitalizations for Vertebral Fractures Associated With Osteoporosis |
|
Rate per 10,000 |
|
|
TOTAL |
17.5 |
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Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
DSU |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Asian |
DNC |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DNC |
|
Black or African American |
DSU |
|
White |
14.0 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
DSU |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
DSU |
|
Black or African American |
DSU |
|
White |
DSU |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
19.6 |
|
Male |
13.9 |
|
Select populations |
|
|
Age groups (not age adjusted) |
|
|
65 to 74 years |
6.7 |
|
75 to 84 years |
26.0 |
|
85 years and older |
39.0 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not
collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.