Table 11_1_7-1

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_7.1
Home health care patients who have less shortness of breath, United States, 2002 and 2007
		2007		2002
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		61.3	0.0	53.3	0.0
Age	0–64	59.0	0.1	51.8	0.1
	65–74	62.8	0.1	54.6	0.1
	75–84	62.1	0.1	53.8	0.1
	85 and over	59.8	0.1	51.8	0.1
Gender	Male	61.0	0.1	53.2	0.1
Gender	Female	61.4	0.0	53.4	0.1
Race^a	White only	61.9	0.0	53.4	0.1
	Black only	60.1	0.1	53.3	0.1
	Asian only	62.7	0.3	52.7	0.4
	NHOPI only	65.0	0.9	54.9	1.1
	AI/AN only	58.5	0.6	51.4	0.6
	Multiple races	58.9	1.0	51.6	1.2
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	55.5	0.1	51.3	0.2
	Non-Hispanic, White	61.9	0.0	53.4	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, Black	60.2	0.1	53.3	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, other	61.9	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 11_1_7-1: 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_7-1.html