Table 9_2_4-1

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_4.1
Home health care patients who get better at walking or moving around, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		41.2	0.0	37.2	0.03
Age	0–64	43.1	0.1	39.6	0.09
	65–74	45.7	0.1	41.2	0.07
	75–84	41.6	0.1	37.5	0.05
	85 and over	35.6	0.1	31.9	0.06
Gender	Male	43.6	0.1	39.8	0.06
Gender	Female	39.9	0.0	35.9	0.04
Race^a	White only	41.4	0.0	37.2	0.04
	Black only	38.7	0.1	35.7	0.10
	Asian only	44.7	0.3	40.9	0.27
	NHOPI only	44.9	0.8	41.3	0.79
	AI/AN only	41.1	0.5	37.0	0.49
	Multiple races	42.9	0.9	39.3	0.99
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	41.2	0.1	39.1	0.13
	Non-Hispanic, White	41.4	0.0	37.2	0.04
	Non-Hispanic, Black	38.7	0.1	35.7	0.10
	Non-Hispanic, other	43.7	0.2	38.6	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_4-1: 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_4-1.html