Table 11_1_7-2b

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 11_1_7.2b
Home health care patients who have less shortness of breath, 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		61.3	0.0	61.9	0.0	60.2	0.1	55.5	0.1
Age	0–64	59.0	0.1	59.3	0.1	59.6	0.2	55.7	0.3
	65–74	62.8	0.1	64.0	0.1	60.8	0.2	55.4	0.3
	75–84	62.1	0.1	62.7	0.1	60.4	0.2	55.8	0.2
	85 and over	59.8	0.1	60.0	0.1	59.5	0.3	55.0	0.3
Gender	Male	61.0	0.1	61.5	0.1	60.0	0.2	55.7	0.2
Gender	Female	61.4	0.0	62.1	0.1	60.3	0.1	55.4	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 11_1_7-2b: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/11_supportive_palliative_care/T11_1_7-2b.html