Table 11_1_9-1

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_9.1
Home health care patients who need urgent, unplanned medical care, United States, 2004 and 2007
		2007		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		21.2	0.0	21.1	0.0
Age	0–64	25.6	0.1	25.5	0.1
	65–74	20.1	0.0	20.2	0.0
	75–84	20.3	0.0	20.2	0.0
	85 and over	20.6	0.0	20.5	0.0
Gender	Male	22.3	0.0	22.1	0.0
Gender	Female	20.6	0.0	20.5	0.0
Race^a	White only	21.1	0.0	20.8	0.0
	Black only	23.8	0.1	24.0	0.1
	Asian only	15.1	0.2	16.4	0.2
	NHOPI only	20.2	0.5	19.1	0.5
	AI/AN only	24.5	0.3	25.1	0.3
	Multiple races	23.4	0.6	23.5	0.7
Ethnicity^a	Hispanic, all races	19.2	0.1	20.3	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, White	21.1	0.0	20.8	0.0
	Non-Hispanic, Black	23.8	0.1	24.0	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, other	18.1	0.1	19.0	0.1

^a Excludes records with missing values.

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_9-1: 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_9-1.html