Table 11_1_7-2b

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_7.2b
Home health care patients who have less shortness of breath, 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		60.5	0.0	61.1	0.0	59.6	0.1	54.3	0.1
Age	0-64	58.3	0.1	58.6	0.1	58.5	0.2	54.7	0.3
	65-74	62.3	0.1	63.5	0.1	60.7	0.2	53.8	0.3
	75-84	61.3	0.1	61.9	0.1	60.2	0.2	54.6	0.2
	85 and over	58.9	0.1	59.0	0.1	58.9	0.3	54.2	0.3
Gender	Male	60.2	0.1	60.8	0.1	59.1	0.2	54.2	0.2
Gender	Female	60.7	0.0	61.3	0.1	59.9	0.1	54.4	0.2

^a Episodes in which a person's dyspneic status 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.

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_7-2b: 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_7-2b.html