Table 11_1_22-2b

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_22.2b
Home health care patients who were admitted to the hospital, 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		28.6	0.0	27.6	0.0	34.2	0.1	31.3	0.1
Age	0-64	34.7	0.1	34.4	0.1	35.8	0.1	35.0	0.2
	65-74	27.8	0.0	26.9	0.1	32.9	0.1	29.0	0.2
	75-84	27.4	0.0	26.7	0.0	33.4	0.1	30.7	0.2
	85 and over	27.0	0.0	26.3	0.1	34.2	0.2	31.3	0.2
Gender	Male	30.5	0.0	29.7	0.0	35.3	0.1	33.3	0.1
Gender	Female	27.5	0.0	26.4	0.0	33.5	0.1	30.0	0.1

^a Episodes in which a person was hospitalized for an acute condition while receiving home health care services.� Reason for hospitalization may be for emergent, urgent, or elective medical care.� 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_22-2b: 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_22-2b.html