Table 9_2_8-1

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_8.1
Home health care patients who had to be admitted to the hospital, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		28.3	0.0	27.9	0.02
Age	0–64	34.6	0.1	34.3	0.06
	65–74	27.5	0.1	27.4	0.05
	75–84	27.0	0.0	26.6	0.04
	85 and over	26.7	0.1	26.3	0.05
Gender	Male	30.1	0.0	29.7	0.04
Gender	Female	27.2	0.0	26.9	0.03
Race^a	White only	27.3	0.0	26.8	0.03
	Black only	33.9	0.1	34.1	0.07
	Asian only	23.1	0.2	22.5	0.19
	NHOPI only	27.1	0.5	26.3	0.56
	AI/AN only	34.2	0.4	32.3	0.35
	Multiple races	30.7	0.7	29.7	0.71
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	31.0	0.1	30.7	0.09
	Non-Hispanic, White	27.3	0.0	26.8	0.03
	Non-Hispanic, Black	33.9	0.1	34.1	0.07
	Non-Hispanic, other	25.2	0.1	25.1	0.11

^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_8-1: 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_8-1.html