Table 11_1_9-2b

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_9.2b
Home health care patients who need urgent, unplanned medical care, 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		21.7	0.0	21.6	0.0	24.2	0.1	19.7	0.1
Age	0-64	25.9	0.1	26.5	0.1	25.6	0.1	23.4	0.2
	65-74	20.6	0.0	20.6	0.1	23.0	0.1	17.8	0.1
	75-84	20.9	0.0	20.9	0.0	23.6	0.1	19.1	0.1
	85 and over	21.2	0.0	21.1	0.0	24.7	0.2	19.4	0.2
Gender	Male	22.8	0.0	22.8	0.0	24.8	0.1	20.9	0.1
Gender	Female	21.0	0.0	20.9	0.0	24.0	0.1	19.0	0.1

^a Episodes with an assessment indicating that urgent or unplanned medical care was initiated.� 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_9-2b: 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_9-2b.html