Table 10_1_7-3b

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_7.3b
Home health care patients who get better at bathing, by ethnicity,^a by State, 2008
			Non-Hispanic				Hispanic, all races
	Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
State	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
Alabama	64.6	0.2	66.1	0.2	59.9	0.5	59.2	4.8
Alaska	55.6	1.3	56.3	1.4	50.0	6.9	DSU	DSU
Arizona	64.8	0.3	65.5	0.3	60.8	1.6	60.2	0.9
Arkansas	65.2	0.3	66.1	0.3	58.4	0.9	68.8	4.7
California	65.6	0.1	65.8	0.1	61.9	0.4	65.9	0.3
Colorado	64.3	0.3	61.3	0.3	61.0	1.8	60.4	1.1
Connecticut	60.9	0.2	60.9	0.3	60.0	1.0	58.7	1.2
Delaware	65.3	0.5	67.0	0.5	57.4	1.2	63.9	4.0
District of Columbia	72.4	0.8	79.5	1.9	71.2	0.9	62.0	6.9
Florida	64.9	0.1	67.2	0.1	61.6	0.4	54.2	0.3
Georgia	67.9	0.2	68.8	0.2	64.5	0.4	71.6	2.1
Hawaii	61.7	0.7	62.9	1.4	DSU	DSU	66.7	4.7
Idaho	61.1	0.5	61.1	0.5	DSU	DSU	64.4	3.3
Illinois	67.1	0.1	67.3	0.2	66.4	0.3	66.9	0.6
Indiana	63.6	0.2	63.7	0.2	62.2	0.7	63.8	2.1
Iowa	66.2	0.3	66.4	0.4	57.3	2.5	63.6	4.4
Kansas	66.9	0.3	67.7	0.3	63.2	1.4	69.9	2.7
Kentucky	63.7	0.2	63.9	0.3	61.1	1.0	62.9	5.1
Louisiana	64.2	0.3	66.6	0.3	57.8	0.5	62.6	2.6
Maine	67.5	0.4	67.4	0.4	69.8	5.8	DSU	DSU
Maryland	67.0	0.2	67.8	0.3	64.2	0.5	69.3	2.1
Massachusetts	66.2	0.2	66.2	0.2	67.0	0.7	66.2	0.8
Michigan	64.1	0.1	64.5	0.2	62.7	0.3	64.4	1.2
Minnesota	59.0	0.3	59.5	0.3	52.4	1.6	61.2	4.0
Mississippi	66.9	0.3	69.2	0.4	61.9	0.6	83.7	5.6
Missouri	69.3	0.2	70.2	0.2	63.1	0.6	68.1	2.7
Montana	62.4	0.6	62.4	0.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Nebraska	63.9	0.4	64.2	0.5	54.3	2.2	71.1	3.7
Nevada	68.6	0.3	69.2	0.4	64.6	1.3	63.8	1.6
New Hampshire	63.4	0.4	63.4	0.4	61.4	7.3	58.3	6.4
New Jersey	66.9	0.2	67.2	0.2	64.5	0.5	67.1	0.7
New Mexico	63.4	0.5	63.9	0.6	61.5	3.7	63.0	0.9
New York	63.2	0.1	64.0	0.1	61.6	0.3	59.4	0.4
North Carolina	63.3	0.2	64.6	0.2	58.5	0.4	66.4	2.0
North Dakota	68.5	0.7	68.8	0.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ohio	62.9	0.1	63.4	0.2	59.5	0.4	63.8	1.7
Oklahoma	63.0	0.3	63.6	0.3	55.3	1.2	65.0	2.7
Oregon	58.2	0.3	58.4	0.3	56.6	2.7	63.1	3.0
Pennsylvania	65.4	0.1	65.7	0.1	62.3	0.4	66.9	1.0
Puerto Rico	64.3	0.3	63.4	7.5	60.0	7.8	64.4	0.3
Rhode Island	66.7	0.4	66.4	0.4	67.5	2.4	70.0	2.2
South Carolina	71.0	0.2	72.5	0.3	66.7	0.5	65.4	4.2
South Dakota	62.7	0.8	63.0	0.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Tennessee	65.5	0.2	65.7	0.2	63.7	0.6	64.7	3.7
Texas	58.4	0.1	61.2	0.2	53.2	0.3	54.3	0.2
Utah	67.6	0.3	67.8	0.4	62.4	5.0	67.3	2.2
Vermont	59.4	0.6	59.5	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Virgin Islands	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Virginia	66.2	0.2	67.5	0.2	61.4	0.4	67.5	2.0
Washington	59.5	0.3	59.9	0.3	57.0	1.8	59.1	2.3
West Virginia	64.1	0.4	64.1	0.4	63.8	2.3	DSU	DSU
Wisconsin	63.2	0.3	63.6	0.3	57.6	1.2	65.3	2.4
Wyoming	62.5	1.0	61.3	1.1	DSU	DSU	68.1	5.5

^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.

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

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_7-3b: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/10_functional_status/T10_1_7-3b.html