Table 10_1_2-2b

2010 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 10_1_2.2b
Home health care patients who get better at walking or moving around, by ethnicity,^a United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic				Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		44.9	0.0	45.3	0.0	41.8	0.1	42.7	0.1
Age	0-64	45.8	0.1	46.6	0.1	44.2	0.2	44.6	0.3
	65-74	49.4	0.1	50.8	0.1	43.5	0.2	45.0	0.2
	75-84	45.5	0.1	46.2	0.1	40.4	0.2	41.8	0.2
	85 and over	39.5	0.1	39.5	0.1	36.6	0.2	38.6	0.3
Gender	Male	47.0	0.1	47.7	0.1	42.9	0.2	43.8	0.2
Gender	Female	43.7	0.0	44.1	0.0	41.2	0.1	42.0	0.1

^a Episodes in which a person improved at walking or moving around compared to a prior assessment.� Episodes for people who are at the highest level and cannot improve any more are excluded. Also excludes records with missing ethnicity values.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_2-2b: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/10_functional_status/T10_1_2-2b.html