Table 11_1_10-1

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 11_1_10.1
Home health care patients who stays at home after an episode of home health care ends, United States, 2004 and 2007
		2007		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		68.3	0.0	68.5	0.0
Age	0–64	62.8	0.1	62.9	0.1
	65–74	69.6	0.1	69.6	0.1
	75–84	69.5	0.0	69.7	0.0
	85 and over	68.9	0.1	69.0	0.1
Gender	Male	66.2	0.0	66.5	0.0
Gender	Female	69.5	0.0	69.6	0.0
Race^a	White only	69.2	0.0	69.5	0.0
	Black only	63.3	0.1	62.9	0.1
	Asian only	74.2	0.2	74.4	0.2
	NHOPI only	70.8	0.6	70.7	0.6
	AI/AN only	62.8	0.4	63.9	0.4
	Multiple races	66.2	0.7	66.5	0.7
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	65.3	0.1	65.7	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, White	69.2	0.0	69.5	0.0
	Non-Hispanic, Black	63.3	0.1	62.9	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, other	72.1	0.1	71.5	0.1

^a Excludes records with missing values.

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 11_1_10-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/11_supportive_palliative_care/T11_1_10-1.html