Table 9_1_19-2

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_19.2
Short-stay nursing home residents who were assessed and given pneumococcal vaccination, 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		64.4	0.1	66.5	0.1	49.4	0.2	60.3	0.9	58.3	0.5	56.2	0.3
Age^a	0–64	51.3	0.2	54.2	0.2	41.8	0.4	55.2	2.2	51.5	2.0	49.1	0.8
	65–74	61.2	0.1	63.8	0.1	49.1	0.3	58.4	1.7	55.9	1.1	55.5	0.6
	75–84	65.4	0.1	67.3	0.1	50.8	0.3	61.0	1.5	58.1	0.8	56.8	0.5
	85 and over	67.8	0.1	69.2	0.1	53.0	0.4	64.9	1.7	61.4	0.9	59.6	0.6
Gender^a	Male	61.8	0.1	64.2	0.1	47.1	0.3	58.4	1.4	56.8	0.8	54.8	0.5
Gender^a	Female	65.7	0.1	67.7	0.1	50.9	0.2	61.6	1.1	59.4	0.7	57.2	0.4

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

^b Data reflect care for 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_19-2: 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_19-2.html