Table 9_2_1-1

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 9_2_1.1
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medication correctly, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		41.8	0.0	38.8	0.04
Age	0–64	46.2	0.1	43.0	0.13
	65–74	52.2	0.1	48.7	0.09
	75–84	43.2	0.1	40.1	0.06
	85 and over	31.9	0.1	29.4	0.07
Gender	Male	42.5	0.1	39.5	0.07
Gender	Female	41.3	0.1	38.4	0.05
Race^a	White only	42.2	0.1	39.0	0.05
	Black only	42.2	0.1	39.3	0.12
	Asian only	38.8	0.3	38.3	0.31
	NHOPI only	39.1	0.9	37.9	0.93
	AI/AN only	40.0	0.6	38.5	0.61
	Multiple races	42.1	1.2	38.7	1.25
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	38.2	0.1	36.7	0.15
	Non-Hispanic, White	42.2	0.1	39.0	0.05
	Non-Hispanic, Black	42.2	0.1	39.3	0.12
	Non-Hispanic, other	39.9	0.2	37.9	0.19

^a Excludes records with missing values.

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

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_2_1-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/9_nursinghome_homehealth_hospice/T9_2_1-1.html