Table 9_1_15-2

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 9_1_15.2
Short-stay nursing home residents with pressure sores, by race/ethnicity,^a United States, 2006^b
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic								Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		AI/AN		API		Hispanic, all races
		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		20.1	0.0	19.6	0.0	23.8	0.1	21.0	0.7	22.3	0.4	24.1	0.2
Age^a	0–64	19.8	0.1	19.4	0.2	20.7	0.3	21.8	1.7	19.4	1.5	20.4	0.6
	65–74	19.2	0.1	18.7	0.1	21.4	0.3	21.1	1.3	19.0	0.8	20.8	0.4
	75–84	19.5	0.1	18.8	0.1	24.1	0.2	20.5	1.1	21.4	0.6	23.8	0.4
	85 and over	21.2	0.1	20.5	0.1	27.3	0.3	20.8	1.3	25.6	0.7	29.1	0.5
Gender^a	Male	22.4	0.1	22.3	0.1	22.9	0.2	22.1	1.0	22.5	0.6	24.0	0.4
Gender^a	Female	19.0	0.1	18.3	0.1	24.3	0.2	20.2	0.8	22.1	0.5	24.1	0.3

^a Age, gender, and race/ethnicity categories exclude records with missing values.

^b Data reflect care of the third quarter of each calendar year.

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

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Minimum Data Set.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_1_15-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/9_nursinghome_homehealth_hospice/T9_1_15-2.html