Table 9_2_5-1

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_5.1
Home health care patients who have less pain when moving around, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		63.1	0.0	60.5	0.04
Age	0–64	59.7	0.1	57.7	0.10
	65–74	63.4	0.1	61.0	0.07
	75–84	64.0	0.1	61.3	0.06
	85 and over	63.9	0.1	60.8	0.08
Gender	Male	65.0	0.1	62.8	0.07
Gender	Female	62.2	0.0	59.4	0.05
Race^a	White only	62.6	0.0	59.8	0.04
	Black only	64.5	0.1	62.4	0.11
	Asian only	67.4	0.3	67.3	0.30
	NHOPI only	66.5	0.8	65.0	0.90
	AI/AN only	61.5	0.5	56.9	0.56
	Multiple races	61.3	1.0	60.4	1.12
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	66.7	0.1	64.9	0.14
	Non-Hispanic, White	62.6	0.0	59.8	0.04
	Non-Hispanic, Black	64.5	0.1	62.4	0.11
	Non-Hispanic, other	63.9	0.2	62.3	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_5-1: 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_5-1.html