Table 10_1_8_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_8.3b
Home health care patients who got better at taking their medication correctly,^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	43.4	0.0	43.8	0.0	44.9	0.1	38.3	0.1
Alabama	47.0	0.3	47.4	0.3	46.1	0.6	41.6	5.2
Alaska	30.4	1.4	31.3	1.6	38.2	8.3	DSU	DSU
Arizona	41.5	0.3	41.7	0.4	42.5	1.9	40.3	1.0
Arkansas	43.2	0.4	44.1	0.4	37.8	1.1	39.2	5.7
California	40.5	0.1	40.5	0.1	42.3	0.5	41.5	0.3
Colorado	40.8	0.3	36.6	0.4	37.5	2.2	38.2	1.2
Connecticut	37.3	0.3	37.1	0.3	39.9	1.2	37.4	1.3
Delaware	48.9	0.6	50.2	0.7	43.3	1.5	43.1	4.3
District of Columbia	62.4	1.0	76.9	2.4	60.4	1.1	58.3	8.2
Florida	41.8	0.1	44.9	0.1	41.1	0.4	29.7	0.2
Georgia	45.2	0.2	45.5	0.3	44.1	0.5	46.9	2.5
Hawaii	35.5	0.8	37.6	1.6	DSU	DSU	40.8	5.6
Idaho	35.1	0.6	35.0	0.6	DSU	DSU	39.6	4.1
Illinois	50.9	0.2	49.4	0.2	53.9	0.3	51.5	0.6
Indiana	42.3	0.3	42.0	0.3	45.0	0.9	45.4	2.4
Iowa	45.3	0.4	45.6	0.4	41.8	2.7	41.9	4.8
Kansas	43.6	0.4	44.0	0.4	40.8	1.6	36.6	3.0
Kentucky	42.4	0.3	42.5	0.3	40.6	1.3	40.5	5.5
Louisiana	46.4	0.3	48.7	0.4	40.4	0.6	44.7	3.0
Maine	44.2	0.5	44.3	0.5	63.2	7.8	DSU	DSU
Maryland	44.0	0.3	44.3	0.3	42.9	0.6	48.3	2.7
Massachusetts	51.2	0.2	51.5	0.2	49.8	0.9	48.3	0.9
Michigan	45.0	0.2	43.3	0.2	50.1	0.3	46.2	1.4
Minnesota	37.8	0.3	38.2	0.3	37.3	1.6	42.3	3.6
Mississippi	48.5	0.4	49.0	0.5	47.8	0.7	39.0	7.6
Missouri	48.0	0.2	48.4	0.3	44.6	0.7	47.3	3.2
Montana	39.3	0.8	39.3	0.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Nebraska	41.8	0.5	41.7	0.6	41.0	2.4	42.6	4.8
Nevada	49.4	0.4	50.8	0.5	45.7	1.5	45.9	1.7
New Hampshire	46.1	0.5	46.2	0.5	30.0	7.3	39.1	7.2
New Jersey	47.3	0.2	47.3	0.2	48.4	0.7	46.3	0.8
New Mexico	41.2	0.6	42.0	0.8	45.5	4.7	39.6	1.0
New York	43.7	0.2	43.1	0.2	48.3	0.5	43.9	0.5
North Carolina	36.5	0.2	37.0	0.2	34.7	0.4	40.2	2.4
North Dakota	54.9	0.9	55.0	0.9	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ohio	41.5	0.2	41.4	0.2	42.9	0.5	37.4	1.9
Oklahoma	43.1	0.4	43.3	0.4	40.2	1.5	39.1	3.1
Oregon	31.9	0.3	31.6	0.3	43.2	3.2	34.8	3.2
Pennsylvania	45.5	0.1	45.2	0.1	48.5	0.5	48.4	1.1
Puerto Rico	39.9	0.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	40.0	0.4
Rhode Island	48.4	0.5	48.0	0.5	53.8	3.1	57.6	2.6
South Carolina	48.0	0.3	49.4	0.3	44.0	0.6	48.6	4.1
South Dakota	40.3	1.0	40.4	1.0	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Tennessee	45.8	0.2	46.1	0.2	43.7	0.7	48.4	4.5
Texas	38.6	0.1	40.6	0.2	37.3	0.4	35.2	0.3
Utah	45.3	0.4	45.3	0.5	46.6	6.6	42.5	2.6
Vermont	44.3	0.7	44.3	0.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Virgin Islands	21.7	5.0	DSU	DSU	21.1	5.4	DSU	DSU
Virginia	43.3	0.2	43.7	0.3	41.7	0.5	43.4	2.4
Washington	34.4	0.3	34.7	0.3	35.5	1.9	31.5	2.3
West Virginia	42.0	0.4	42.0	0.4	40.9	2.7	DSU	DSU
Wisconsin	41.2	0.3	41.4	0.3	39.1	1.4	38.7	2.6
Wyoming	38.1	1.3	38.3	1.4	DSU	DSU	22.7	6.3

^a. Episodes in which a person showed improvement in ability to manage oral medications 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_8_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_8_3b.html