Table 9_3_3-1

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_3.1
Hospice patient caregivers who perceived patient was referred to hospice at the right time, United States, 2007
Population group		2007
Population group		Total responses	Percent	SE
Total		159,750	88.7	0.1
Age	18–44	7,040	84.5	0.4
	45–64	40,590	87.0	0.2
	65 and over	33,252	90.9	0.2
Race	AI/AN	566	87.3	1.4
	API	720	87.6	1.2
	Black	2,715	91.1	0.6
	White	75,280	88.3	0.1
	Other race/multiple races	1,145	86.9	1.0
Ethnicity	Hispanic	2,047	88.5	0.7
	Non-Hispanic, all races	77,320	88.4	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, White	72,655	88.3	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, Black	2,557	91.2	0.6
Gender	Male	22,687	91.2	0.2
Gender	Female	59,725	87.3	0.1
Education	Less than high school	5,708	91.6	0.4
	High school graduate	26,042	90.3	0.2
	At least some college	47,563	86.9	0.2

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_3-1: 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_3_3-1.html