Table 10_1_7_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_7.2b
Home health care patients who got better at bathing, by ethnicity,^a United States, 2009
				Non-Hispanic				Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		65.1	0.0	65.9	0.0	62.7	0.1	60.2	0.1
Age	0-64	65.7	0.1	66.3	0.1	65.2	0.2	63.4	0.2
	65-74	72.3	0.1	74.3	0.1	66.5	0.2	63.7	0.2
	75-84	66.2	0.1	67.3	0.1	61.1	0.2	59.7	0.2
	85 and over	56.5	0.1	57.1	0.1	53.5	0.2	51.7	0.3
Gender	Male	65.9	0.1	66.8	0.1	63.1	0.1	60.8	0.2
Gender	Female	64.6	0.0	65.4	0.0	62.4	0.1	59.8	0.1

^a. Episodes in which a person's ability to bathe improved 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_7_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_7_2b.html