Table 9_3_2-1

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_3_2.1
Hospice patients who received care consistent with their stated end-of-life wishes, United States, 2005 and 2007
Population group		2007			2005
Population group		Total responses	Percent	SE	Total responses	Percent
Total		60,692	94.4	0.1	52,427	94.5
Age	18–44	4,532	92.8	0.4	4,698	93.3
	45–64	26,509	94.7	0.1	22,945	95.0
	65 and over	21,808	94.4	0.2	18,605	94.4
Race	AI/AN	343	88.6	1.7	334	90.7
	API	558	85.1	1.5	411	81.8
	Black	1,810	90.0	0.7	1,776	89.0
	White	49,608	94.8	0.1	43,403	95.0
	Other race/multiple races	694	89.3	1.2	609	88.3
Ethnicity	Hispanic	1,291	89.2	0.9	1091	88.3
	Non-Hispanic, all races	51,537	94.6	0.1	45,138	94.8
	Non-Hispanic, White	48,357	94.9	0.1	42,275	95.2
	Non-Hispanic, Black	1,731	90.2	0.7	1,693	89.1
Gender	Male	14,647	95.0	0.2	12,902	95.0
Gender	Female	38,530	94.2	0.1	33,638	94.4
Education	Less than high school	3,754	89.9	0.5	3,802	89.2
	High school graduate	17,264	93.6	0.2	15,364	93.9
	At least some college	31,540	95.4	0.1	26,836	95.7

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Family Evaluation of Hospice Care Survey.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_3_2-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/9_nursinghome_homehealth_hospice/T9_3_2-1.html