Table 11_1_8-2b

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_8.2b
Home health care patients who have less urinary incontinence, 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		47.4	0.0	48.0	0.1	47.5	0.1	38.9	0.2
Age	0-64	46.4	0.1	46.6	0.2	48.3	0.3	40.1	0.5
	65-74	52.8	0.1	54.3	0.1	51.8	0.3	41.3	0.3
	75-84	48.8	0.1	49.6	0.1	47.6	0.2	39.6	0.3
	85 and over	42.9	0.1	43.5	0.1	41.3	0.3	34.5	0.3
Gender	Male	49.4	0.1	50.3	0.1	48.2	0.3	40.5	0.3
Gender	Female	46.6	0.1	47.2	0.1	47.3	0.2	38.2	0.2

^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 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_8-2b: 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_8-2b.html