Table 6_3_1-1

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 6_3_1.1
Children ages 19–35 months who received all recommended vaccines (4:3:1:3:3),^a United States, 2000 and 2007
		2007		2000
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		80.1	0.5	72.8	0.5
Race^b	AI/AN only	83.5	3.4	71.7	3.4
	Asian only	78.5	3.0	69.0	2.8
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	77.5	1.6	67.9	1.3
	White only	80.9	0.6	74.2	0.5
	Multiple races	77.6	2.6	73.5	2.4
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	79.8	1.2	68.5	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, all races	80.3	0.6	74.0	0.5
	Non-Hispanic, Black	77.5	1.6	67.8	1.4
	Non-Hispanic, White	81.0	0.6	76.1	0.6
Gender	Male	80.4	0.8	72.3	0.7
Gender	Female	79.9	0.8	73.4	0.7
Family income^c	Negative/poor	76.5	1.2	67.2	1.1
	Near poor/low	77.8	1.3	70.2	1.0
	Middle	81.8	0.9	76.1	0.8
	High	84.1	1.0	78.8	1.0

^a Percentage of children, ages 19 to 35 months, receiving at least 4 doses of diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), at least 3 doses of polio, at least 1 dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), at least 3 doses of Haemophilus influenzae B (Hib), and at least 3 doses of hepatitis B antigens. The vaccines included in this measure are based on the corresponding Healthy People 2010 objective, which does not include varicella vaccine or vaccines added to the recommended schedule after 1998 for children up to 35 months of age. More information can be found in the Measure Specifications Appendix.

^b Race categories have been changed since 2001. Data for 2001 and later years may not be comparable to data from previous years.

^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.

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

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 6_3_1-1: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_3_1-1.html