Table 10_1_8-2b

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_8.2b
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medication correctly, 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		42.8	0.0	43.2	0.0	43.9	0.1	38.0	0.1
Age	0-64	47.9	0.1	48.0	0.1	49.3	0.2	44.7	0.3
	65-74	53.8	0.1	56.6	0.1	49.4	0.2	43.2	0.3
	75-84	44.1	0.1	45.1	0.1	42.1	0.2	36.8	0.2
	85 and over	32.5	0.1	32.8	0.1	32.6	0.2	27.9	0.3
Gender	Male	43.3	0.1	43.9	0.1	43.4	0.2	38.2	0.2
Gender	Female	42.5	0.1	42.8	0.1	44.2	0.1	37.8	0.2

^a Episodes in which a person showed improvement in ability to manage oral medications compared to a prior assessment.� Episodes for people who are at the highest level and cannot improve any more are excluded.� 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_8-2b: 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_8-2b.html