Table 9_2_4-2b

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_4.2b
Home health care patients who get better at walking or moving around, by ethnicity,^a United States, 2006
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic				Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		41.2	0.0	41.4	0.0	38.7	0.1	41.2	0.1
Age	0–64	43.1	0.1	43.3	0.1	42.3	0.2	43.0	0.3
	65–74	45.7	0.1	46.7	0.1	40.5	0.2	44.1	0.2
	75–84	41.6	0.1	42.1	0.1	36.7	0.2	39.9	0.2
	85 and over	35.6	0.1	35.5	0.1	33.3	0.2	37.0	0.3
Gender	Male	43.6	0.1	44.1	0.1	40.4	0.2	42.3	0.2
Gender	Female	39.9	0.0	40.0	0.0	37.9	0.1	40.6	0.2

^a Excludes records with missing values.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_2_4-2b: 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_4-2b.html