Table 11_1_8-1

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_8.1
Home health care patients who have less urinary incontinence, United States, 2002 and 2007
		2007		2002
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		49.8	0.1	47.3	0.1
Age	0–64	48.1	0.1	42.2	0.2
	65–74	55.1	0.1	52.5	0.1
	75–84	51.5	0.1	49.1	0.1
	85 and over	45.1	0.1	43.3	0.1
Gender	Male	51.4	0.1	47.6	0.1
Gender	Female	49.2	0.1	47.2	0.1
Race^a	White only	50.6	0.1	48.0	0.1
	Black only	49.3	0.1	44.2	0.2
	Asian only	50.9	0.4	47.8	0.5
	NHOPI only	50.8	1.2	48.8	1.6
	AI/AN only	47.1	0.7	44.8	0.8
	Multiple races	48.0	1.3	49.5	1.7
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	40.3	0.2	41.7	0.3
	Non-Hispanic, White	50.6	0.1	48.0	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, Black	49.3	0.1	44.2	0.2
	Non-Hispanic, other	50.8	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_8-1: 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_8-1.html