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2008 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 9_2_8.1
Home health care patients who had to be admitted to the hospital, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group 2006 2004
Percent SE Percent SE
Total 28.3 0.0 27.9 0.02
Age 0–64 34.6 0.1 34.3 0.06
65–74 27.5 0.1 27.4 0.05
75–84 27.0 0.0 26.6 0.04
85 and over 26.7 0.1 26.3 0.05
Gender Male 30.1 0.0 29.7 0.04
Female 27.2 0.0 26.9 0.03
Racea White only 27.3 0.0 26.8 0.03
Black only 33.9 0.1 34.1 0.07
Asian only 23.1 0.2 22.5 0.19
NHOPI only 27.1 0.5 26.3 0.56
AI/AN only 34.2 0.4 32.3 0.35
Multiple races 30.7 0.7 29.7 0.71
Ethnicitya Hispanic, all races 31.0 0.1 30.7 0.09
Non-Hispanic, White 27.3 0.0 26.8 0.03
Non-Hispanic, Black 33.9 0.1 34.1 0.07
Non-Hispanic, other 25.2 0.1 25.1 0.11

a Excludes records with missing values.

Key: NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

 

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