Table 16_10_5-1

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 16_10_5.1
Children with special health care needs who received wanted or needed care coordination, United States, 2005–2006
Population group		Percent	SE
Total		59.2	0.5
Race	White only	61.1	0.5
	Black only	55.7	1.4
	Asian only	52.5	4.3
	NHOPI only	53.9	3.9
	AI/AN only	58.5	10.8
	Multiple races	57.4	2.4
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	49.9	1.7
	Non-Hispanic, all races	60.5	0.5
	Non-Hispanic, White	62.0	0.6
	Non-Hispanic, Black	56.3	1.4
	Non-Hispanic, other	54.8	2.0
Family income^a	Negative/poor	53.3	1.2
	Near poor/low	55.1	1.1
	Middle	61.9	0.9
	High	63.5	0.9

^a Imputed family income. 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.

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

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 16_10_5-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/16_prioritypopulations/T16_10_5-1.html