Table 10_1_8-1

2009 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 10_1_8.1
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medication correctly, United States, 2002 and 2007
		2007		2002
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		42.9	0.0	35.2	0.0
Age	0–64	47.7	0.1	38.7	0.1
	65–74	53.5	0.1	44.0	0.1
	75–84	44.2	0.1	36.3	0.1
	85 and over	32.7	0.1	26.7	0.1
Gender	Male	43.5	0.1	35.7	0.1
Gender	Female	42.5	0.1	34.9	0.1
Race^a	White only	43.2	0.0	35.3	0.1
	Black only	43.7	0.1	35.1	0.1
	Asian only	39.6	0.3	34.8	0.3
	NHOPI only	42.3	0.9	32.9	1.0
	AI/AN only	42.3	0.6	34.5	0.6
	Multiple races	41.1	1.1	36.4	1.3
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	38.8	0.1	33.3	0.2
	Non-Hispanic, White	43.2	0.0	35.3	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, Black	43.7	0.1	35.1	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, other	41.4	0.2	DNA	DNA

^a Excludes records with missing values.

DNA - Data have not been analyzed.

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 March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_8-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/10_functional_status/T10_1_8-1.html