Table 9_2_6-1

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_6.1
Home health care patients who have less shortness of breath, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		60.8	0.0	57.6	0.04
Age	0–64	58.5	0.1	55.8	0.11
	65–74	62.4	0.1	59.1	0.08
	75–84	61.6	0.1	58.2	0.06
	85 and over	59.3	0.1	56.0	0.08
Gender	Male	60.5	0.1	57.3	0.06
Gender	Female	61.0	0.1	57.7	0.05
Race^a	White only	61.3	0.0	57.7	0.04
	Black only	59.7	0.1	57.7	0.11
	Asian only	61.9	0.3	59.6	0.32
	NHOPI only	62.0	0.9	59.2	0.96
	AI/AN only	57.4	0.6	54.4	0.59
	Multiple races	60.6	1.1	58.9	1.18
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	56.6	0.1	55.0	0.15
	Non-Hispanic, White	61.3	0.0	57.7	0.04
	Non-Hispanic, Black	59.7	0.1	57.7	0.11
	Non-Hispanic, other	61.0	0.2	57.8	0.19

^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_6-1: 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_6-1.html