Table 9_2_3-1

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_3.1
Home health care patients who get better at getting in and out of bed, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		53.2	0.0	51.3	0.04
Age	0–64	54.2	0.1	52.1	0.11
	65–74	59.7	0.1	57.6	0.07
	75–84	54.3	0.1	52.3	0.06
	85 and over	45.3	0.1	43.7	0.07
Gender	Male	54.3	0.1	52.3	0.06
Gender	Female	52.6	0.0	50.8	0.05
Race^a	White only	54.0	0.0	52.0	0.04
	Black only	50.4	0.1	48.9	0.11
	Asian only	52.0	0.3	50.5	0.30
	NHOPI only	52.5	0.8	52.1	0.88
	AI/AN only	52.6	0.6	49.2	0.56
	Multiple races	54.2	1.0	50.9	1.13
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	48.9	0.1	47.5	0.14
	Non-Hispanic, White	54.0	0.0	52.0	0.04
	Non-Hispanic, Black	50.4	0.1	48.9	0.11
	Non-Hispanic, other	52.9	0.2	50.6	0.18

^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_3-1: 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_3-1.html