Table 16_3_4-2b

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 16_3_4.2b
People who identified a hospital, emergency room, or clinic as a source of ongoing care,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2007
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		18.2	0.4	16.4	0.5	14.5	0.5	21.0	0.9	26.8	1.0
Age, not age adjusted	0–17	21.8	0.7	18.3	0.7	15.1	0.8	25.7	1.6	34.9	1.4
	18–44	17.4	0.5	16.0	0.6	14.3	0.6	19.2	1.2	24.1	1.1
	45–64	16.8	0.6	15.9	0.6	14.5	0.6	20.8	1.5	25.7	2.0
	65 and over	15.6	0.8	15.2	0.9	14.5	0.9	17.4	1.9	21.2	2.6
Gender	Male	17.5	0.5	16.2	0.5	14.6	0.6	19.9	1.1	23.3	1.1
Gender	Female	18.9	0.5	16.7	0.5	14.6	0.6	21.9	1.2	30.7	1.2
Health insurance,^b ages 0–64	Private	13.1	0.4	12.8	0.5	12.3	0.5	11.9	0.9	15.4	1.0
	Public	35.6	1.1	31.1	1.3	27.7	1.5	34.6	2.0	49.4	2.2
	Uninsured	23.9	1.1	21.8	1.5	17.2	1.2	27.8	2.2	28.9	1.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	13.6	1.0	13.7	1.0	13.5	1.0	17.1	3.4	DSU	DSU
	Medicare and public	28.2	2.2	27.1	2.4	26.1	2.8	25.3	4.5	34.9	5.3
	Medicare only	13.2	1.3	12.5	1.4	11.6	1.5	13.7	2.6	19.4	3.6
Family income^c	Negative/poor	31.1	1.2	28.2	1.4	23.0	1.6	31.6	2.0	39.2	2.1
	Near poor/low	22.7	0.8	20.3	1.0	17.2	1.1	23.6	1.7	29.7	1.6
	Middle	16.8	0.6	15.9	0.7	15.5	0.7	16.7	1.4	21.8	1.4
	High	11.4	0.5	11.4	0.5	10.9	0.5	10.9	1.4	11.9	1.5
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	25.6	1.0	20.7	1.3	16.9	1.3	27.6	2.5	33.4	1.7
	High school graduate	16.6	0.7	16.1	0.8	15.0	0.9	19.4	1.5	20.1	2.0
	At least some college	14.1	0.5	14.0	0.5	13.2	0.5	15.9	1.2	14.6	1.3
Residence location^d	Metropolitan	16.7	0.4	14.7	0.4	12.3	0.5	21.6	1.0	26.3	1.0
	Large central metro	20.3	0.6	17.5	0.7	12.7	0.8	26.8	1.4	28.2	1.2
	Large fringe metro	11.8	0.6	10.6	0.6	9.0	0.6	15.7	1.6	21.0	2.0
	Medium metro	14.7	0.9	12.5	0.9	10.5	0.9	19.7	2.5	25.5	2.4
	Small metro	22.8	2.0	22.1	2.1	21.8	2.2	16.5	2.8	28.9	3.0
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	23.3	2.4	23.1	2.5	23.0	2.8	16.3	2.9	20.5	3.0
	Noncore (nonmetro)	27.8	3.6	25.9	3.7	23.1	3.2	15.4	3.5	45.4	10.0
Activity limitations,^d age 18 and over	Basic activities	21.5	2.1	21.2	2.4	17.0	2.3	30.4	6.0	26.7	2.6
	Complex activities	21.8	1.2	20.5	1.2	19.5	1.5	22.9	2.3	32.1	3.4
	No activity limitations	16.0	0.5	15.0	0.5	13.6	0.5	17.6	1.0	22.6	1.1

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population, except where indicated.

^b A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.

^c 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. Missing values for family income were imputed using multiple imputation methodology. A small number of people were excluded because their family income could not be imputed.

^d For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

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

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 16_3_4-2b: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/16_facilitators_barriers/T16_3_4-2b.html