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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 | | |
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| | Total | White | Black | Hispanic, all races |
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Population group | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE |
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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 |
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://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/11_supportive_palliative_care/T11_1_7-2b.html