Table 11_1_8-2a

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_8.2a
Home health care patients who have less urinary incontinence, by race,^a United States, 2008
				Single race
		Total		White		Black		Asian		NHOPI		AI/AN		Multiple races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		47.4	0.0	48.0	0.1	47.5	0.1	47.7	0.4	51.0	1.1	45.2	0.7	50.6	1.3
Age	0-64	46.4	0.1	46.6	0.2	48.3	0.3	48.2	1.7	53.0	3.2	42.9	1.6	47.5	3.3
	65-74	52.8	0.1	54.3	0.1	51.8	0.3	52.4	0.8	57.8	2.3	48.9	1.4	53.1	2.9
	75-84	48.8	0.1	49.6	0.1	47.6	0.2	48.7	0.6	51.2	1.8	47.6	1.2	54.9	2.2
	85 and over	42.9	0.1	43.5	0.1	41.3	0.3	43.1	0.7	44.5	2.1	40.1	1.4	44.7	2.6
Gender	Male	49.4	0.1	50.3	0.1	48.1	0.3	50.3	0.6	53.3	2.0	46.8	1.3	51.0	2.5
Gender	Female	46.6	0.1	47.1	0.1	47.3	0.2	46.3	0.5	50.0	1.3	44.6	0.8	50.5	1.6

^a Episodes in which a person's urinary incontinence 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 race values.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 11_1_8-2a: 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_8-2a.html