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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 11_1_9.2b
Home health care patients who need urgent, unplanned medical care, 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   21.2 0.0 21.1 0.0 23.8 0.1 19.2 0.1
Age 0–64 25.6 0.1 26.2 0.1 25.7 0.1 22.5 0.2
65–74 20.1 0.0 20.2 0.1 22.4 0.1 17.6 0.1
75–84 20.3 0.0 20.4 0.0 22.9 0.1 18.5 0.1
85 and over 20.6 0.0 20.5 0.0 23.9 0.2 19.0 0.2
Gender Male 22.3 0.0 22.3 0.0 24.3 0.1 20.3 0.1
Female 20.6 0.0 20.4 0.0 23.5 0.1 18.5 0.1

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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