Table 13_1_4-3b

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 13_1_4.3b
Children who needed care right away for an illness, injury, or condition in the last 12 months who always got care as soon as wanted, by ethnicity, United States, 2006
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		77.4	1.4	78.2	1.4	79.4	1.6	72.8	3.0	73.6	3.0
Age	0–5	75.7	2.2	77.3	2.3	78.4	2.7	70.9	5.6	68.2	4.4
Age	6–17	78.5	1.7	78.7	1.8	79.9	2.0	74.0	3.2	77.4	3.3
Gender	Male	76.8	1.8	77.2	2.0	79.4	2.1	70.9	4.0	74.6	3.7
Gender	Female	78.1	1.7	79.4	1.8	79.3	2.1	75.3	4.5	72.6	3.9
Family income^a	Negative/poor	72.2	3.2	74.2	3.6	75.3	4.6	70.1	6.3	67.1	5.2
	Near poor/low	70.1	3.0	71.6	3.5	72.3	4.5	69.1	6.2	65.4	4.8
	Middle	82.0	1.8	82.0	2.1	84.8	2.1	DSU	DSU	81.8	4.1
	High	79.8	2.4	79.4	2.6	78.2	2.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Health insurance	Any private	80.8	1.5	80.5	1.6	80.8	1.8	78.8	4.0	83.4	3.9
	Public only	69.6	2.6	71.6	3.0	73.6	3.7	67.3	5.1	64.0	4.0
	Uninsured	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	78.2	1.5	79.2	1.6	80.4	1.8	74.1	3.1	73.7	3.2
	Large central metro	75.7	2.2	77.8	2.7	79.7	3.5	74.9	3.8	69.7	4.2
	Large fringe metro	86.0	2.3	86.7	2.5	86.8	3.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medium metro	74.0	4.0	74.2	3.7	75.4	4.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Small metro	73.3	4.4	72.8	4.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Nonmetropolitan	73.1	3.2	73.2	3.1	74.9	3.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Micropolitan	71.4	4.0	71.5	3.8	73.5	4.1	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Noncore	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Language spoken most often at home	English	78.9	1.3	78.4	1.4	79.6	1.6	72.5	3.1	83.2	2.5
Language spoken most often at home	Other	62.2	4.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	60.9	5.4
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	77.6	1.4	78.5	1.5	79.6	1.6	73.8	3.2	73.2	3.2
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	72.8	5.1	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
CSHCN	Yes	75.1	2.1	74.7	2.3	74.9	2.7	71.3	4.5	77.5	4.1
CSHCN	No	78.7	1.7	80.1	1.7	81.8	2.0	73.4	3.9	72.1	3.7

^a Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

^b For more information, see the MEPS entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: CSHCN: children with special health care needs; SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 13_1_4-3b: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/13_timeliness/T13_1_4-3b.html