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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 10_1_8.2b
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medication correctly, by ethnicity,a United States, 2007
        Non-Hispanic    
    Total White Black Hispanic, all races
Population group Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Total   42.9 0.0 43.2 0.0 43.7 0.1 38.8 0.1
Age 0–64 47.7 0.1 47.9 0.2 48.7 0.2 45.5 0.4
65–74 53.5 0.1 56.1 0.1 49.4 0.2 44.3 0.3
75–84 44.2 0.1 45.3 0.1 41.7 0.2 37.5 0.2
85 and over 32.7 0.1 33.0 0.1 32.9 0.3 28.8 0.3
Gender Male 43.5 0.1 44.0 0.1 43.4 0.2 39.2 0.2
Female 42.5 0.1 42.8 0.1 43.8 0.1 38.5 0.2

a Excludes records with missing values.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

 

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