2005 National Healthcare Quality Report, Data Tables. Table 1.122

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Table 1.122
Percent of improvement in bathing^a for home health episodes, by State, 2002 and 2004

	2004			2002
State	Observed percent	Risk adjusted percent^b	Standard error of observed percent	Observed percent	Risk adjusted percent^b	Standard error of observed percent
United States	60.7		0.03	56.8		0.04
Alabama	60.9	61.3	0.25	54.1	55.0	0.26
Alaska	52.5	60.3	1.28	45.5	54.6	1.40
Arizona	63.2	62.1	0.28	60.4	60.8	0.32
Arkansas	60.9	60.3	0.35	56.5	56.5	0.37
California	61.8	64.1	0.10	56.8	59.3	0.11
Colorado	58.0	60.2	0.31	54.9	59.1	0.35
Connecticut	60.0	59.8	0.26	58.3	55.7	0.28
Delaware	60.7	54.9	0.57	61.3	55.7	0.55
District of Columbia	60.3	58.3	0.90	59.6	57.6	0.82
Florida	61.4	62.7	0.10	59.2	60.0	0.11
Georgia	60.8	59.2	0.22	55.0	53.9	0.24
Hawaii	56.4	65.2	0.77	51.4	59.3	0.74
Idaho	55.9	59.2	0.55	55.7	59.4	0.60
Illinois	62.7	61.2	0.15	58.2	56.1	0.17
Indiana	60.9	58.3	0.26	56.4	53.8	0.28
Iowa	63.3	56.1	0.37	59.7	53.0	0.40
Kansas	61.0	59.8	0.39	54.2	54.8	0.46
Kentucky	57.3	54.4	0.26	53.3	50.4	0.28
Louisiana	57.9	61.1	0.28	54.9	57.7	0.29
Maine	59.9	57.2	0.42	57.8	54.8	0.44
Maryland	64.0	59.8	0.25	59.9	55.8	0.27
Massachusetts	59.3	58.4	0.18	54.8	53.5	0.19
Michigan	62.9	63.6	0.15	59.5	59.9	0.16
Minnesota	59.1	57.6	0.32	56.4	54.4	0.36
Mississippi	61.1	60.1	0.31	55.5	55.8	0.33
Missouri	65.8	60.5	0.20	60.8	56.9	0.22
Montana	54.8	60.0	0.69	49.4	54.6	0.70
Nebraska	63.0	61.2	0.47	57.8	56.2	0.51
Nevada	61.4	63.5	0.44	59.6	60.3	0.52
New Hampshire	60.4	58.4	0.49	59.3	57.8	0.53
New Jersey	62.5	61.0	0.18	60.9	58.6	0.19
New Mexico	64.9	67.0	0.48	61.7	65.1	0.49
New York	61.1	60.7	0.13	58.2	57.5	0.14
North Carolina	60.5	57.3	0.18	55.4	53.3	0.20
North Dakota	57.0	54.2	0.74	53.6	52.3	0.76
Ohio	60.2	56.9	0.16	56.8	53.1	0.17
Oklahoma	59.1	61.1	0.30	54.6	57.5	0.32
Oregon	54.6	61.3	0.31	51.4	58.5	0.32
Pennsylvania	60.7	58.6	0.12	56.0	53.8	0.14
Rhode Island	63.9	60.0	0.42	61.4	57.6	0.46
South Carolina	64.8	63.1	0.28	58.5	57.0	0.30
South Dakota	60.1	60.9	0.79	53.4	52.8	0.80
Tennessee	58.9	59.4	0.21	54.6	55.6	0.23
Texas	55.4	60.9	0.13	50.7	56.4	0.15
Utah	64.4	67.0	0.39	58.4	63.0	0.44
Vermont	62.9	60.3	0.63	61.4	57.0	0.72
Virginia	60.7	57.4	0.21	56.9	54.2	0.23
Washington	56.9	61.5	0.27	52.1	57.2	0.28
West Virginia	57.1	57.6	0.41	51.5	51.8	0.43
Wisconsin	58.6	55.1	0.31	54.8	51.7	0.33
Wyoming	60.8	60.2	1.04	54.8	55.8	1.14

^a Consumer language used on the Home Health Compare Web site for this measure is: Percentage of patients who get better at bathing.

^b Only observed national rate reported as in Home Health Compare.

Source: Calculated by the Center for Health Services and Policy Research, University of Colorado, from Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data.

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