Table 14_4_8-1b

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 14_4_8.1b
Children who did not have problems seeing a specialist they needed to see in the last 12 months, by ethnicity, United States, 2005
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		79.0	1.4	79.5	1.5	80.6	1.6	75.3	3.8	76.2	2.9
Age	0–5	77.9	2.5	78.4	2.8	80.3	3.2	*	*	75.8	5.0
Age	6–17	79.4	1.6	79.9	1.7	80.7	1.8	77.8	4.0	76.4	3.4
Gender	Male	77.0	2.0	77.4	2.3	78.7	2.5	70.8	5.1	74.1	4.2
Gender	Female	81.4	1.8	81.7	2.0	82.7	2.1	*	*	78.9	3.7
Family income^a	Negative/poor	75.3	3.0	76.0	3.7	77.8	4.7	*	*	73.2	4.8
	Near poor/low	77.3	2.8	77.7	3.3	77.4	4.2	*	*	76.0	5.0
	Middle	78.7	2.7	78.0	2.9	79.2	3.0	*	*	*	*
	High	81.5	2.2	82.5	2.2	83.4	2.3	*	*	*	*
Health insurance	Any private	80.6	1.6	80.7	1.7	81.2	1.8	*	*	*	*
	Public only	75.1	2.5	75.6	3.1	78.3	3.6	71.5	5.4	73.8	4.1
	Uninsured	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	78.9	1.5	79.4	1.7	81.0	1.8	74.5	4.1	75.8	3.1
	Large central metro	75.6	2.6	73.6	3.2	76.7	3.8	*	*	80.8	4.0
	Large fringe metro	78.5	2.5	79.7	2.6	80.3	2.7	*	*	*	*
	Medium metro	83.0	3.1	84.0	3.2	85.1	3.3	*	*	*	*
	Small metro	81.0	4.1	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Nonmetropolitan	79.7	3.4	79.6	3.5	78.7	4.0	*	*	*	*
	Micropolitan	78.7	3.9	78.6	4.1	77.6	4.7	*	*	*	*
	Noncore	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Language spoken most often at home	English	79.7	1.5	79.9	1.5	80.8	1.6	76.2	3.7	77.0	3.9
Language spoken most often at home	Other	72.8	4.4	*	*	*	*	*	*	74.7	4.4
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	79.6	1.4	79.9	1.6	81.2	1.6	75.0	4.1	77.9	2.9
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	71.0	5.0	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
CSHCN	Yes	76.5	1.9	77.0	2.1	79.7	2.2	71.7	4.9	73.3	4.7
CSHCN	No	81.9	1.8	82.5	2.0	82.0	2.2	*	*	78.7	3.9

^a Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

^b For more information, see the MEPS entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

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

Key: CSHCN: children with special health care needs; SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 14_4_8-1b: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/14_facilitators_barrierstocare/T14_4_8-1b.html