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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 11_1_25.2
Hospice patients who received care consistent with their stated end-of-life wishes, by State, 2006 and 2008
  2008 2006
State Percent SE Percent SE
Total 94.2 0.09 94.5 0.1
Alabama 94.4 1.03 95.6 0.9
Alaska DSU DSU DSU DSU
Arizona 93.3 0.85 96.0 0.8
Arkansas 95.4 0.83 DSU DSU
California 94.1 0.41 94.2 0.4
Colorado 93.7 0.86 92.8 0.7
Connecticut 92.5 0.95 94.7 0.9
Delaware DSU DSU DSU DSU
District of Columbia DSU DSU DSU DSU
Florida 94.0 0.43 94.3 0.4
Georgia 95.3 0.51 95.8 0.5
Hawaii 89.9 1.66 91.0 1.7
Idaho 94.9 0.83 94.3 1.1
Illinois 95.2 0.35 94.2 0.5
Indiana 93.9 0.48 94.8 0.7
Iowa 94.5 0.50 94.2 0.5
Kansas 94.8 1.07 95.4 1.1
Kentucky 93.6 1.19 92.7 1.3
Louisiana 95.3 1.46 91.5 3.7
Maine 96.8 1.29 94.2 3.3
Maryland 95.1 0.53 94.9 0.5
Massachusetts 93.6 0.76 95.3 0.6
Michigan 95.1 0.39 95.7 0.4
Minnesota 96.1 0.37 96.1 0.5
Mississippi 97.6 1.69 94.5 2.2
Missouri 94.5 0.63 95.6 0.6
Montana 94.2 1.42 93.8 1.4
Nebraska 92.9 1.26 98.7 0.7
Nevada 93.0 1.51 90.9 0.9
New Hampshire 96.3 1.14 95.5 1.1
New Jersey 95.3 0.94 96.3 1.0
New Mexico 94.6 1.46 92.6 1.6
New York 94.2 0.47 94.2 0.4
North Carolina 93.7 0.43 94.4 0.4
North Dakota 91.8 1.04 94.8 0.9
Ohio 94.5 0.31 94.6 0.3
Oklahoma 94.9 1.14 95.1 1.6
Oregon 94.2 0.71 94.5 0.8
Pennsylvania 93.3 0.42 95.5 0.4
Puerto Rico 100.0 0.00 DSU DSU
Rhode Island 90.0 4.80 94.7 5.3
South Carolina 93.0 1.07 90.6 1.3
South Dakota 95.0 1.03 93.6 1.0
Tennessee 95.6 0.79 95.7 0.8
Texas 94.2 0.75 94.6 0.6
Utah 92.9 0.89 94.9 0.8
Vermont DSU DSU DSU DSU
Virginia 94.0 0.76 94.3 0.9
Washington 93.6 0.50 93.3 0.5
West Virginia 93.7 0.97 94.7 0.9
Wisconsin 92.8 0.44 94.0 0.4
Wyoming DSU DSU DSU DSU

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Family Evaluation of Hospice Care Survey.

 

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