Table 10_1_7_3b

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_7.3b
Home health care patients who got better at bathing,^a by ethnicity and State, United States, 2009
			Non-Hispanic				Hispanic, all races
	Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
State	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
Alabama	66.3	0.2	67.6	0.2	61.9	0.5	69.8	4.1
Alaska	55.7	1.2	56.1	1.4	48.2	6.7	61.8	8.3
Arizona	64.3	0.2	64.8	0.3	61.2	1.5	62.8	0.8
Arkansas	66.0	0.3	66.8	0.3	60.3	0.9	55.8	4.9
California	65.7	0.1	66.0	0.1	62.3	0.4	65.8	0.3
Colorado	63.3	0.3	60.1	0.3	58.9	1.8	61.5	1.0
Connecticut	61.2	0.2	61.4	0.3	58.0	1.0	58.3	1.2
Delaware	68.4	0.5	70.0	0.5	62.2	1.1	62.8	3.4
District of Columbia	70.9	0.8	81.8	1.7	69.2	0.8	58.8	6.9
Florida	65.2	0.1	67.8	0.1	61.3	0.3	54.5	0.2
Georgia	67.8	0.2	68.8	0.2	64.5	0.4	70.3	2.0
Hawaii	58.6	0.7	58.3	1.3	70.0	8.4	68.0	4.7
Idaho	62.2	0.5	62.2	0.5	DSU	DSU	61.3	3.4
Illinois	68.8	0.1	68.3	0.2	69.6	0.3	69.6	0.5
Indiana	64.6	0.2	64.7	0.2	63.0	0.7	64.4	1.9
Iowa	67.5	0.3	67.7	0.3	62.8	2.3	66.1	4.2
Kansas	69.3	0.3	70.1	0.3	64.0	1.4	67.7	2.5
Kentucky	64.0	0.2	64.4	0.2	59.3	0.9	58.5	4.4
Louisiana	65.5	0.3	67.8	0.3	59.1	0.5	64.1	2.4
Maine	69.0	0.3	69.1	0.4	77.8	5.2	75.0	7.7
Maryland	69.1	0.2	69.5	0.3	67.7	0.4	71.6	2.0
Massachusetts	67.4	0.1	67.5	0.2	66.5	0.7	68.6	0.8
Michigan	64.8	0.1	65.1	0.1	63.8	0.2	68.1	1.1
Minnesota	60.6	0.3	61.2	0.3	54.6	1.4	61.5	3.3
Mississippi	67.1	0.3	68.9	0.3	63.4	0.5	73.3	5.7
Missouri	70.2	0.2	71.0	0.2	65.3	0.6	69.0	2.6
Montana	65.0	0.6	64.9	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Nebraska	63.9	0.4	64.4	0.4	53.1	2.0	62.4	3.9
Nevada	67.8	0.3	68.7	0.4	65.0	1.2	62.3	1.4
New Hampshire	66.5	0.4	66.5	0.4	75.0	5.3	75.4	5.3
New Jersey	68.4	0.2	68.5	0.2	66.5	0.5	69.0	0.7
New Mexico	64.1	0.4	65.5	0.6	60.0	3.6	62.4	0.8
New York	63.2	0.1	64.2	0.1	61.9	0.3	59.6	0.4
North Carolina	63.1	0.2	64.3	0.2	58.7	0.4	70.2	1.9
North Dakota	68.5	0.8	68.7	0.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ohio	62.8	0.1	63.4	0.2	59.9	0.4	60.7	1.7
Oklahoma	62.9	0.3	63.7	0.3	56.3	1.1	62.1	2.5
Oregon	57.1	0.3	57.1	0.3	58.7	2.6	58.0	2.9
Pennsylvania	65.9	0.1	66.1	0.1	63.3	0.4	67.8	0.9
Puerto Rico	62.9	0.3	66.7	8.2	DSU	DSU	62.9	0.3
Rhode Island	65.9	0.4	65.8	0.4	70.2	2.3	70.3	2.1
South Carolina	71.5	0.2	73.1	0.3	66.8	0.5	68.5	3.3
South Dakota	65.5	0.8	65.5	0.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Tennessee	65.4	0.2	65.9	0.2	61.9	0.5	67.4	3.6
Texas	58.9	0.1	62.0	0.2	53.3	0.3	54.2	0.2
Utah	67.3	0.3	67.1	0.4	59.6	4.9	68.7	2.1
Vermont	63.9	0.6	63.9	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Virgin Islands	58.3	4.2	DSU	DSU	60.0	4.7	DSU	DSU
Virginia	66.9	0.2	67.7	0.2	63.2	0.4	68.8	1.9
Washington	58.7	0.3	58.7	0.3	54.0	1.7	61.1	2.2
West Virginia	63.3	0.4	63.5	0.4	57.4	2.2	DSU	DSU
Wisconsin	64.7	0.3	64.9	0.3	60.9	1.1	71.0	2.1
Wyoming	64.0	1.0	62.9	1.1	DSU	DSU	69.6	5.5

^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.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

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_3b: 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_3b.html