Table 9_2_2-1

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_2.1
Home health care patients who get better at bathing, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		63.6	0.0	60.7	0.03
Age	0–64	63.9	0.1	61.1	0.09
	65–74	70.8	0.1	68.0	0.06
	75–84	64.9	0.1	61.9	0.05
	85 and over	54.8	0.1	51.5	0.07
Gender	Male	64.7	0.1	61.8	0.05
Gender	Female	63.1	0.0	60.2	0.04
Race^a	White only	64.5	0.0	61.5	0.04
	Black only	60.4	0.1	57.6	0.10
	Asian only	62.7	0.3	60.3	0.27
	NHOPI only	64.6	0.7	60.6	0.78
	AI/AN only	62.0	0.5	58.7	0.49
	Multiple races	62.9	0.9	62.2	0.98
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	59.1	0.1	57.2	0.13
	Non-Hispanic, White	64.5	0.0	61.5	0.04
	Non-Hispanic, Black	60.4	0.1	57.6	0.10
	Non-Hispanic, other	63.3	0.2	59.6	0.16

^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_2-1: 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_2-1.html