Table 11_1_8-3

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_8.3
Home health care patients whose bladder control improves, by State, 2005 and 2008^a
	2008		2005
State	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	45.2	0.2	45.2	0.2
Alabama	47.5	1.4	47.7	1.2
Alaska	45.9	5.3	38.4	5.0
Arizona	49.8	1.4	54.5	1.2
Arkansas	38.5	1.7	34.9	1.4
California	48.0	0.7	46.9	0.7
Colorado	44.3	1.3	45.1	1.5
Connecticut	45.8	1.5	47.4	1.6
Delaware	46.5	4.4	50.6	4.1
District of Columbia	55.5	5.5	53.8	3.4
Florida	43.3	0.8	47.1	0.7
Georgia	54.4	1.5	50.2	1.3
Hawaii	51.5	3.0	55.8	2.3
Idaho	40.1	2.5	39.2	3.0
Illinois	50.2	0.9	49.6	1.0
Indiana	48.0	1.3	48.0	1.3
Iowa	34.3	1.4	34.0	1.5
Kansas	44.8	2.0	43.8	1.7
Kentucky	44.5	1.4	41.7	1.4
Louisiana	41.0	1.2	37.6	1.2
Maine	45.1	2.4	46.4	2.1
Maryland	51.8	1.8	53.2	1.7
Massachusetts	47.8	1.3	46.9	1.4
Michigan	50.0	0.9	50.8	0.9
Minnesota	36.3	1.4	37.7	1.7
Mississippi	50.5	2.0	45.1	1.9
Missouri	48.5	1.1	44.3	1.2
Montana	41.6	2.9	37.2	3.3
Nebraska	41.1	2.3	41.7	3.2
Nevada	49.5	2.0	52.4	2.2
New Hampshire	44.4	2.8	46.0	2.7
New Jersey	53.7	1.7	53.5	1.8
New Mexico	45.5	1.8	52.0	2.4
New York	45.2	1.1	50.8	1.0
North Carolina	45.0	1.0	48.8	0.9
North Dakota	37.3	3.0	32.1	5.0
Ohio	45.5	0.9	46.1	0.9
Oklahoma	38.3	1.3	33.0	1.2
Oregon	48.4	1.6	47.5	1.7
Pennsylvania	49.2	1.0	51.4	0.9
Rhode Island	54.8	2.0	55.9	2.3
South Carolina	56.4	1.7	53.7	1.4
South Dakota	39.5	3.7	37.5	2.6
Tennessee	48.5	1.1	45.0	1.2
Texas	39.4	0.6	38.8	0.6
Utah	51.0	2.2	49.1	2.5
Vermont	35.6	3.2	49.9	3.9
Virginia	48.0	1.1	49.5	1.1
Washington	46.2	1.3	49.4	1.2
West Virginia	46.6	2.0	43.7	1.6
Wisconsin	43.0	1.5	42.4	1.4
Wyoming	42.5	6.7	38.2	5.6

^a Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in March-April and reflect care delivered mainly in the previous year.

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_8-3: 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_8-3.html