Table 10_1_2_2b

2011 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 10_1_2.2b
Home health care patients who got better at walking or moving around, by ethnicity,^a United States, 2009
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		46.9	0.0	47.6	0.0	43.7	0.1	43.7	0.1
Age	0-64	47.8	0.1	48.8	0.1	45.9	0.2	46.3	0.3
	65-74	51.5	0.1	53.1	0.1	45.5	0.2	45.4	0.2
	75-84	47.5	0.1	48.5	0.1	42.2	0.2	42.9	0.2
	85 and over	41.5	0.1	41.8	0.1	38.8	0.2	39.4	0.3
Gender	Male	48.7	0.1	49.7	0.1	44.4	0.2	44.7	0.2
Gender	Female	45.9	0.0	46.5	0.0	43.3	0.1	43.1	0.1

^a. Episodes in which a person improved at walking or moving around compared with 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: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of March 2012

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_2_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/10_functional_status/T10_1_2_2b.html