Table 9_2_9-1

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_9.1
Home health care patients who need urgent, unplanned medical care, United States, 2004 and 2006
Population group		2006		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		21.2	0.0	21.1	0.02
Age	0–64	25.7	0.1	25.5	0.06
	65–74	20.2	0.0	20.2	0.04
	75–84	20.3	0.0	20.2	0.03
	85 and over	20.7	0.0	20.5	0.04
Gender	Male	22.3	0.0	22.1	0.04
Gender	Female	20.7	0.0	20.5	0.03
Race^a	White only	21.1	0.0	20.8	0.02
	Black only	24.0	0.1	24.0	0.06
	Asian only	16.0	0.2	16.4	0.17
	NHOPI only	21.3	0.5	19.1	0.51
	AI/AN only	25.1	0.3	25.1	0.33
	Multiple races	23.1	0.6	23.5	0.66
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	19.5	0.1	20.3	0.08
	Non-Hispanic, White	21.1	0.0	20.8	0.02
	Non-Hispanic, Black	24.0	0.1	24.0	0.06
	Non-Hispanic, other	18.7	0.1	19.0	0.10

^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_9-1: 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_9-1.html