Table 10_1_8-2b

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_8.2b
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medication correctly, by ethnicity,^a United States, 2007
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		42.9	0.0	43.2	0.0	43.7	0.1	38.8	0.1
Age	0–64	47.7	0.1	47.9	0.2	48.7	0.2	45.5	0.4
	65–74	53.5	0.1	56.1	0.1	49.4	0.2	44.3	0.3
	75–84	44.2	0.1	45.3	0.1	41.7	0.2	37.5	0.2
	85 and over	32.7	0.1	33.0	0.1	32.9	0.3	28.8	0.3
Gender	Male	43.5	0.1	44.0	0.1	43.4	0.2	39.2	0.2
Gender	Female	42.5	0.1	42.8	0.1	43.8	0.1	38.5	0.2

^a Excludes records with missing values.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_8-2b: 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_8-2b.html