Table 11_1_10-2b

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 11_1_10.2b
Home health care patients who stayed at home after an episode of home health care ended, 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		68.0	0.0	68.8	0.0	63.1	0.1	65.0	0.1
Age	0-64	62.7	0.1	62.9	0.1	61.8	0.1	62.1	0.2
	65-74	69.4	0.1	70.3	0.1	64.6	0.1	67.2	0.2
	75-84	69.1	0.0	69.8	0.0	63.7	0.1	65.5	0.2
	85 and over	68.4	0.1	69.0	0.1	61.9	0.2	64.3	0.2
Gender	Male	65.9	0.0	66.6	0.0	61.7	0.1	62.9	0.1
Gender	Female	69.2	0.0	70.1	0.0	63.8	0.1	66.4	0.1

^a Episodes with final assessments indicating patients remained at home at the conclusion of services.� 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 11_1_10-2b: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/11_supportive_palliative_care/T11_1_10-2b.html