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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 2006Population group | 2006 | 2004 |
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Percent | SE | Percent | SE |
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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 |
Female | 39.9 | 0.0 | 35.9 | 0.04 |
Racea | 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 |
Ethnicitya | 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://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/9_nursinghome_homehealth_hospice/T9_2_4-1.html