Table 14_1_12-3b

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 14_1_12.3b
Rating of 9–10 on a scale from 0 to 10 (best grade) of health care for children who had a doctor's office or clinic visit in the last 12 months, 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		67.7	1.0	68.4	1.1	69.1	1.3	68.8	1.9	64.6	1.8
Age	0–5	68.5	1.4	69.6	1.5	71.0	1.9	68.9	3.1	64.2	2.8
Age	6–17	67.3	1.2	67.8	1.4	68.0	1.6	68.7	2.3	65.0	2.0
Gender	Male	66.4	1.2	66.9	1.4	68.2	1.6	66.2	2.3	64.1	2.3
Gender	Female	69.1	1.2	70.0	1.3	70.1	1.6	71.5	2.5	65.2	2.3
Family income^a	Negative/poor	68.4	1.7	68.2	2.1	65.7	3.0	71.8	3.2	69.1	2.6
	Near poor/low	64.3	1.8	63.7	2.3	64.9	3.0	63.7	4.0	65.8	2.7
	Middle	65.8	1.9	67.9	2.0	69.9	2.4	64.0	3.9	55.3	3.9
	High	71.4	1.8	71.2	1.8	70.7	2.0	79.1	5.0	74.3	5.7
Health insurance	Any private	69.5	1.2	69.8	1.3	70.4	1.5	70.6	2.8	66.7	3.5
	Public only	64.5	1.4	65.2	1.7	65.0	2.1	67.7	2.7	62.9	2.2
	Uninsured	64.6	4.2	63.9	5.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	66.0	5.3
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	67.9	1.1	68.9	1.2	69.3	1.5	69.9	2.0	64.2	1.9
	Large central metro	68.6	1.7	70.6	2.1	72.1	3.0	70.0	2.8	64.2	2.3
	Large fringe metro	69.6	1.9	70.3	2.0	71.2	2.4	71.1	4.0	65.2	5.2
	Medium metro	65.7	2.5	65.7	2.6	65.9	2.9	68.4	5.9	66.0	4.7
	Small metro	65.6	2.4	67.0	2.7	66.0	3.1	68.1	5.5	57.2	5.2
	Nonmetropolitan	66.8	2.1	66.4	2.1	68.3	2.3	60.1	6.4	70.8	5.3
	Micropolitan	65.6	2.5	65.2	2.4	66.0	2.6	66.9	8.2	69.1	6.6
	Noncore	69.1	3.8	68.7	3.9	72.3	4.3	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Language spoken most often at home	English	68.3	1.0	68.7	1.1	69.1	1.3	69.4	1.9	65.5	2.6
Language spoken most often at home	Other	63.6	2.2	62.9	4.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	63.8	2.5
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	68.3	1.0	69.1	1.1	69.6	1.3	70.2	1.9	64.9	1.8
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	44.8	4.1	39.3	4.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	58.1	7.1
CSHCN	Yes	59.5	1.9	59.4	2.1	59.7	2.4	58.8	3.7	60.4	3.5
CSHCN	No	70.3	1.0	71.6	1.1	72.5	1.3	72.0	2.1	65.2	2.0

^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 14_1_12-3b: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/14_patientcenteredness/T14_1_12-3b.html