Table 10_1_8-3

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_8.3
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medicines correctly (by mouth), by State, 2005 and 2008^a
	2008		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	40.4	0.2	37.8	0.1
Alabama	45.3	1.0	40.6	0.8
Alaska	39.6	2.5	37.9	2.3
Arizona	39.9	0.9	37.9	1.0
Arkansas	38.7	1.0	36.3	1.0
California	41.5	0.5	39.1	0.5
Colorado	37.3	1.0	34.5	0.9
Connecticut	37.7	1.1	34.3	1.1
Delaware	39.9	3.1	32.0	2.3
District of Columbia	42.2	4.5	43.3	5.1
Florida	40.3	0.6	39.2	0.5
Georgia	45.3	1.1	39.5	0.9
Hawaii	39.1	1.9	35.1	2.0
Idaho	36.7	1.4	34.0	1.5
Illinois	45.1	0.8	42.1	0.7
Indiana	39.8	0.8	36.5	0.8
Iowa	34.5	0.9	34.5	1.1
Kansas	35.9	1.3	33.7	1.0
Kentucky	36.7	0.8	35.7	0.8
Louisiana	42.5	0.8	38.7	0.9
Maine	40.4	1.6	35.4	1.6
Maryland	43.5	1.2	39.1	1.2
Massachusetts	43.5	1.1	36.5	1.0
Michigan	43.4	0.7	41.2	0.7
Minnesota	33.6	0.9	30.5	0.9
Mississippi	46.8	1.3	41.4	1.4
Missouri	40.4	0.9	33.5	0.8
Montana	35.4	1.9	31.7	1.6
Nebraska	36.2	2.0	32.8	1.6
Nevada	44.3	1.5	42.1	1.7
New Hampshire	41.5	2.0	39.8	1.4
New Jersey	45.0	1.1	39.2	1.1
New Mexico	42.3	1.4	44.3	1.5
New York	39.4	0.8	37.0	0.7
North Carolina	35.8	0.6	33.3	0.6
North Dakota	38.6	2.6	32.4	2.3
Ohio	37.2	0.6	33.7	0.6
Oklahoma	38.7	0.8	36.8	0.9
Oregon	38.0	1.0	34.4	1.1
Pennsylvania	41.0	0.7	39.5	0.8
Rhode Island	43.3	2.3	33.6	2.2
South Carolina	43.6	1.2	38.8	0.9
South Dakota	34.0	2.5	40.4	1.9
Tennessee	43.0	0.8	39.1	0.8
Texas	39.7	0.5	38.8	0.5
Utah	45.0	1.8	41.5	1.8
Vermont	35.8	1.5	41.2	2.3
Virginia	39.6	0.8	38.4	0.7
Washington	37.7	0.8	37.4	0.9
West Virginia	38.8	1.2	34.3	1.2
Wisconsin	35.2	1.1	31.8	1.0
Wyoming	33.7	2.6	34.9	2.4

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in March-April and reflect care delivered mainly in the previous year.

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_8-3: 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_8-3.html