Table 9_2_6-3

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_6.3
Home health care patients who are short of breath less often, by State, 2005 and 2007^a
State	2007			2005
State	Number of providers	Percent	SE	Number of providers	Percent	SE
Total	8,972	57.3	0.19	6,286	55.3	0.2
Alabama	143	58.5	1.20	139	56.7	1.0
Alaska	16	60.1	2.50	9	55.2	3.5
Arizona	85	62.8	1.04	65	62.2	0.9
Arkansas	172	51.2	1.28	132	45.2	1.5
California	649	62.3	0.59	515	60.0	0.6
Colorado	134	60.8	1.04	97	57.7	1.1
Connecticut	82	58.7	1.10	72	57.4	1.3
Delaware	18	60.8	2.73	13	59.7	1.9
District of Columbia	23	63.1	4.97	11	58.6	5.4
Florida	803	56.6	0.70	503	54.1	0.6
Georgia	98	61.9	1.36	91	58.2	1.4
Hawaii	14	71.2	1.79	13	69.0	1.8
Idaho	48	55.6	1.73	45	54.4	1.7
Illinois	483	58.9	0.81	286	60.1	0.8
Indiana	186	58.5	0.96	128	56.7	1.1
Iowa	175	55.3	1.21	123	51.2	1.1
Kansas	129	58.5	1.49	91	56.3	1.4
Kentucky	102	57.5	1.12	97	53.1	1.0
Louisiana	218	47.3	1.16	182	43.5	1.1
Maine	29	59.0	1.80	26	58.5	1.5
Maryland	48	67.1	1.65	44	64.4	1.3
Massachusetts	127	59.3	1.17	95	56.0	1.0
Michigan	380	62.8	0.66	252	61.4	0.6
Minnesota	200	54.4	1.16	112	53.5	1.2
Mississippi	54	57.7	1.68	53	54.1	1.5
Missouri	167	59.9	1.08	138	57.5	0.9
Montana	35	59.3	2.91	30	59.9	2.6
Nebraska	68	57.6	2.12	46	55.5	1.9
Nevada	68	61.7	1.58	47	59.8	1.9
New Hampshire	36	59.7	1.92	30	57.7	1.5
New Jersey	49	67.4	0.97	48	62.7	1.3
New Mexico	66	62.6	1.64	55	61.4	1.7
New York	185	59.0	0.94	152	58.4	0.9
North Carolina	168	61.9	0.78	157	60.4	0.7
North Dakota	23	64.7	3.19	22	61.0	2.9
Ohio	467	55.4	0.83	273	53.8	0.8
Oklahoma	214	48.9	1.18	165	44.9	1.3
Oregon	56	61.3	1.13	57	60.7	1.3
Pennsylvania	295	61.2	0.72	225	58.8	0.8
Rhode Island	22	63.6	1.51	20	60.2	1.7
South Carolina	67	67.3	1.17	61	63.5	1.1
South Dakota	39	62.1	2.89	24	56.8	2.6
Tennessee	139	60.3	0.99	129	55.2	1.1
Texas	1,798	48.6	0.58	954	48.3	0.6
Utah	68	65.6	1.64	45	63.3	1.4
Vermont	12	56.8	2.72	12	56.5	2.7
Virginia	185	60.3	0.93	143	58.0	1.1
Washington	60	62.3	1.16	56	61.5	1.1
West Virginia	61	60.1	1.31	56	55.2	1.3
Wisconsin	126	63.1	1.53	83	55.4	1.2
Wyoming	27	57.6	3.62	18	61.9	3.0

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp on March 31, 2006, for the 2005 estimates and on April 18, 2008, for the 2007 estimates.

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_6-3: 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_6-3.html