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Selected Findings From the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

Largest racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities that are not improving*

Disparity

Relative rate

Black compared with White
Hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations per 1,000 population age 18 and over with diabetes2.0
Emergency department visits where patients left without being seen1.7
Adults age 65 and over who ever received pneumococcal vaccination1.5
Asian compared with White
Adults age 65 and over who ever received pneumococcal vaccination1.4
People with a usual primary care provider1.3
Adults who had a doctor's office or clinic visit in the last 12 months whose health providers listened carefully, explained things clearly, respected what they had to say, and spent enough time with them1.2
American Indian or Alaska Native compared with White
People under age 65 with health insurance1.7
Hospital patients with heart failure who received recommended hospital care1.7
Adults age 50 and over who ever received colorectal cancer screening1.6
Hispanic compared with Non-Hispanic White
New AIDS cases per 100,000 population age 13 and over3.3
People under age 65 with health insurance2.7
People with a specific source of ongoing care2.0
Poor compared with High Income
People under age 65 with health insurance4.7
Female Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and over who reported ever being screened for osteoporosis with a bone mass or bone density measurement3.6
People with a specific source of ongoing care2.9

* To compare relative rates (RRs), measures were framed negatively. An RR > 1 indicates that a group is receiving poorer quality of care or facing larger problems with access to care compared with the reference group. For example, an RR of 1.3 indicates that Asians are 1.3 times more likely than Whites not to have a usual primary care provider.

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Page last reviewed March 2011
Internet Citation: Selected Findings From the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities. March 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/minority-table.html