Table 9_2_7-3

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_7.3
Home health care patients whose bladder control improves, by State, 2005 and 2007^a
State	2007			2005
State	Number of providers	Percent	SE	Number of providers	Percent	SE
Total	8,972	46.7	0.21	5,530	45.2	0.2
Alabama	143	48.9	1.36	133	47.7	1.2
Alaska	16	48.0	3.53	8	38.4	5.0
Arizona	85	53.9	1.29	59	54.5	1.2
Arkansas	172	43.0	1.70	115	34.9	1.4
California	649	50.0	0.70	474	46.9	0.7
Colorado	134	45.3	1.24	81	45.1	1.5
Connecticut	82	47.7	1.64	61	47.4	1.6
Delaware	18	53.2	3.50	13	50.6	4.1
District of Columbia	23	57.6	7.18	9	53.8	3.4
Florida	803	44.9	0.80	473	47.1	0.7
Georgia	98	54.3	1.30	85	50.2	1.3
Hawaii	14	52.7	2.03	13	55.8	2.3
Idaho	48	39.6	3.23	41	39.2	3.0
Illinois	483	50.1	0.91	253	49.6	1.0
Indiana	186	48.5	1.14	114	48.0	1.3
Iowa	175	36.2	1.43	84	34.0	1.5
Kansas	129	44.4	1.88	70	43.8	1.7
Kentucky	102	43.4	1.35	92	41.7	1.4
Louisiana	218	42.9	1.24	163	37.6	1.2
Maine	29	46.8	2.34	26	46.4	2.1
Maryland	48	51.3	1.79	43	53.2	1.7
Massachusetts	127	48.9	1.34	84	46.9	1.4
Michigan	380	51.4	0.86	224	50.8	0.9
Minnesota	200	38.2	1.44	78	37.7	1.7
Mississippi	54	50.4	1.97	46	45.1	1.9
Missouri	167	49.7	1.17	119	44.3	1.2
Montana	35	41.2	2.91	25	37.2	3.3
Nebraska	68	43.1	2.34	35	41.7	3.2
Nevada	68	51.0	2.18	36	52.4	2.2
New Hampshire	36	44.8	2.55	25	46.0	2.7
New Jersey	49	56.9	1.42	47	53.5	1.8
New Mexico	66	50.9	2.02	45	52.0	2.4
New York	185	48.9	1.20	141	50.8	1.0
North Carolina	168	47.0	0.88	150	48.8	0.9
North Dakota	23	40.0	4.19	15	32.1	5.0
Ohio	467	47.9	0.90	224	46.1	0.9
Oklahoma	214	37.6	1.25	146	33.0	1.2
Oregon	56	47.9	1.89	53	47.5	1.7
Pennsylvania	295	52.7	0.88	206	51.4	0.9
Rhode Island	22	54.9	2.82	18	55.9	2.3
South Carolina	67	56.2	1.50	59	53.7	1.4
South Dakota	39	40.1	3.96	19	37.5	2.6
Tennessee	139	49.8	1.16	120	45.0	1.2
Texas	1,798	40.6	0.62	772	38.8	0.6
Utah	68	51.2	2.06	42	49.1	2.5
Vermont	12	40.3	2.06	11	49.9	3.9
Virginia	185	49.5	1.10	137	49.5	1.1
Washington	60	49.2	1.31	56	49.4	1.2
West Virginia	61	46.2	1.95	55	43.7	1.6
Wisconsin	126	46.0	1.39	75	42.4	1.4
Wyoming	27	36.4	5.61	11	38.2	5.6

^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_7-3: 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_7-3.html