Table 10_1_7-2b

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_7.2b
Home health care patients who get better at bathing, 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		64.5	0.0	65.4	0.0	61.7	0.1	60.0	0.1
Age	0-64	64.8	0.1	65.5	0.1	64.3	0.2	62.3	0.3
	65-74	71.7	0.1	73.7	0.1	65.4	0.2	63.9	0.2
	75-84	65.7	0.1	66.9	0.1	60.2	0.2	59.5	0.2
	85 and over	56.0	0.1	56.5	0.1	52.6	0.2	51.8	0.3
Gender	Male	65.4	0.1	66.4	0.1	62.1	0.2	60.5	0.2
Gender	Female	64.0	0.0	64.8	0.0	61.4	0.1	59.6	0.1

^a Episodes in which a person's ability to bathe improved 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_7-2b: 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_7-2b.html