Table 9_2_9-2a

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_9.2a
Home health care patients who need urgent, unplanned medical care, by race,^a United States, 2006
Population group		Total		Single race										Multiple races
		Total		White		Black		Asian		NHOPI		AI/AN		Multiple races
		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		21.2	0.0	21.1	0.0	24.0	0.1	16.0	0.2	21.3	0.5	25.1	0.3	23.1	0.6
Age	0–64	25.7	0.1	26.1	0.1	26.0	0.1	20.2	0.6	26.9	1.2	28.2	0.6	28.2	1.3
	65–74	20.2	0.0	20.2	0.1	22.6	0.1	14.5	0.3	21.5	1.0	24.7	0.6	21.5	1.2
	75–84	20.3	0.0	20.3	0.0	23.0	0.1	15.5	0.3	19.2	0.8	22.8	0.6	21.4	1.1
	85 and over	20.7	0.0	20.6	0.1	24.3	0.2	16.9	0.4	18.8	1.1	24.4	0.8	21.6	1.4
Gender	Male	22.3	0.0	22.2	0.0	24.5	0.1	17.5	0.3	21.7	0.8	25.5	0.5	24.1	1.0
Gender	Female	20.7	0.0	20.4	0.0	23.8	0.1	14.9	0.2	21.0	0.6	24.9	0.4	22.5	0.8

^a Excludes records with missing values.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_2_9-2a: 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_9-2a.html