Table 9_2_10-1

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_10.1
Home health care patients who stay at home after an episode of home health care ends, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		68.2	0.0	68.5	0.02
Age	0–64	62.6	0.1	62.9	0.06
	65–74	69.5	0.1	69.6	0.05
	75–84	69.4	0.0	69.7	0.04
	85 and over	68.6	0.1	69.0	0.05
Gender	Male	66.2	0.0	66.5	0.04
Gender	Female	69.3	0.0	69.6	0.03
Race^a	White only	69.1	0.0	69.5	0.03
	Black only	63.1	0.1	62.9	0.07
	Asian only	73.9	0.2	74.4	0.20
	NHOPI only	68.8	0.6	70.7	0.58
	AI/AN only	61.8	0.4	63.9	0.36
	Multiple races	65.8	0.7	66.5	0.73
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	65.3	0.1	65.7	0.10
	Non-Hispanic, White	69.1	0.0	69.5	0.03
	Non-Hispanic, Black	63.1	0.1	62.9	0.07
	Non-Hispanic, other	71.4	0.1	71.5	0.12

^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_10-1: 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_10-1.html