Table 10_1_8-3b

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_8.3b
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medication correctly, 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	42.8	0.0	43.2	0.0	43.9	0.1	38.0	0.1
Alabama	46.5	0.3	47.2	0.3	44.1	0.6	42.0	5.9
Alaska	29.6	1.5	29.3	1.6	26.3	7.1	DSU	DSU
Arizona	41.2	0.3	42.1	0.4	36.8	2.1	36.1	1.1
Arkansas	42.4	0.4	42.7	0.5	39.8	1.2	49.1	6.6
California	40.2	0.1	40.2	0.2	40.0	0.5	40.8	0.3
Colorado	42.6	0.4	38.9	0.4	42.6	2.3	39.0	1.3
Connecticut	38.3	0.3	38.4	0.3	40.2	1.2	36.0	1.3
Delaware	46.8	0.7	47.6	0.7	43.8	1.6	36.2	5.0
District of Columbia	59.0	1.1	69.4	2.9	57.5	1.3	35.9	7.7
Florida	41.5	0.1	44.6	0.1	41.2	0.5	29.1	0.3
Georgia	46.1	0.3	46.6	0.3	44.4	0.5	46.2	2.8
Hawaii	36.1	0.8	41.1	1.6	DSU	DSU	46.0	5.8
Idaho	36.1	0.6	35.9	0.6	DSU	DSU	34.2	3.8
Illinois	49.7	0.2	48.4	0.2	53.1	0.4	49.9	0.7
Indiana	41.2	0.3	41.0	0.3	42.5	0.9	41.1	2.5
Iowa	42.5	0.4	42.7	0.5	40.8	3.0	37.4	4.9
Kansas	42.2	0.4	42.1	0.4	41.8	1.7	48.2	3.4
Kentucky	40.2	0.3	40.2	0.3	41.2	1.3	36.5	6.1
Louisiana	44.9	0.3	47.2	0.4	39.4	0.6	37.8	3.2
Maine	39.5	0.5	39.4	0.5	31.4	7.9	DSU	DSU
Maryland	42.4	0.3	42.9	0.4	41.1	0.7	41.6	2.8
Massachusetts	48.4	0.2	48.4	0.2	48.4	0.9	47.9	1.0
Michigan	43.4	0.2	41.7	0.2	48.3	0.3	42.2	1.6
Minnesota	36.8	0.4	37.2	0.4	35.8	1.8	36.8	4.3
Mississippi	48.2	0.4	49.4	0.5	46.0	0.7	DSU	DSU
Missouri	47.0	0.3	47.6	0.3	43.0	0.7	44.1	3.4
Montana	37.3	0.8	37.3	0.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Nebraska	40.2	0.6	40.6	0.6	30.3	2.6	42.0	4.9
Nevada	48.1	0.5	48.6	0.5	46.4	1.7	44.3	1.9
New Hampshire	43.4	0.5	43.4	0.6	DSU	DSU	47.5	7.9
New Jersey	47.7	0.2	47.5	0.3	49.2	0.7	46.9	0.9
New Mexico	41.0	0.6	41.9	0.8	47.0	5.0	40.1	1.1
New York	43.4	0.2	42.9	0.2	46.7	0.5	44.9	0.5
North Carolina	35.2	0.2	36.1	0.2	32.6	0.5	32.7	2.6
North Dakota	52.8	0.9	53.0	0.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ohio	42.9	0.2	42.9	0.2	44.0	0.5	38.4	2.0
Oklahoma	43.4	0.4	43.7	0.4	38.9	1.5	40.5	3.5
Oregon	33.3	0.4	33.5	0.4	32.1	3.0	36.6	3.4
Pennsylvania	45.5	0.1	45.3	0.2	47.7	0.5	47.6	1.2
Puerto Rico	41.1	0.4	36.7	8.8	DSU	DSU	41.1	0.4
Rhode Island	48.2	0.5	48.0	0.6	54.5	3.1	46.8	2.7
South Carolina	47.0	0.3	48.2	0.4	43.8	0.6	42.0	5.5
South Dakota	39.8	1.0	39.8	1.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Tennessee	44.9	0.2	44.8	0.3	45.6	0.7	42.3	4.5
Texas	38.6	0.2	40.2	0.2	37.8	0.4	35.7	0.3
Utah	45.9	0.5	45.7	0.5	49.0	7.0	47.8	2.8
Vermont	38.5	0.7	38.7	0.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Virgin Islands	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Virginia	41.9	0.2	42.6	0.3	40.1	0.5	41.0	2.5
Washington	34.8	0.3	35.1	0.3	35.7	2.1	35.4	2.5
West Virginia	41.6	0.5	41.6	0.5	45.3	3.1	DSU	DSU
Wisconsin	38.4	0.3	38.6	0.4	34.3	1.5	36.4	2.9
Wyoming	38.6	1.3	38.4	1.4	DSU	DSU	29.4	6.4

^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.� 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.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_8-3b: 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_8-3b.html