Table 10_1_5-2

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_5.2
Long-stay^a nursing home residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2008^b
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		AI/AN		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		16.2	0.0	16.4	0.0	15.2	0.1	14.9	0.5	13.0	0.3	15.0	0.2
Age^c	0-64	11.9	0.1	12.3	0.1	11.5	0.2	11.2	0.9	8.7	0.6	10.2	0.3
	65-74	15.6	0.1	15.8	0.1	15.4	0.2	16.0	1.1	13.2	0.7	15.2	0.4
	75-84	17.1	0.1	17.2	0.1	16.7	0.2	16.0	1.0	13.7	0.5	16.8	0.3
	85 and over	17.1	0.1	17.1	0.1	17.4	0.2	16.1	1.0	14.0	0.4	16.6	0.3
Gender^c	Male	16.1	0.1	16.7	0.1	14.7	0.2	14.1	0.7	12.6	0.4	14.3	0.3
Gender^c	Female	16.2	0.0	16.3	0.1	15.6	0.1	15.4	0.7	13.3	0.3	15.6	0.2

^a Long-stay residents typically enter a nursing facility because they are no longer able to care for themselves at home. They tend to stay in the facility for several months or years.

^b Data reflect care for the third quarter of each calendar year.

^c Age, gender, and race/ethnicity categories exclude records with missing values.

Additional detail may be found in the measure specification appendix

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Minimum Data Set.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_5-2: 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_5-2.html