T11_1_16_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 11_1_16.2b
Home health care patients who have less pain when moving around, 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		63.6	0.03	63.4	0.04	64.1	0.09	64.7	0.12
Age	0-64	59.5	0.08	57.9	0.10	62.4	0.16	62.0	0.25
	65-74	63.9	0.06	63.5	0.07	65.4	0.17	64.4	0.21
	75-84	64.8	0.05	64.6	0.06	65.0	0.19	65.6	0.20
	85 and over	64.7	0.07	64.5	0.07	64.0	0.26	67.2	0.28
Gender	Male	65.1	0.05	64.9	0.06	65.6	0.16	65.2	0.19
Gender	Female	62.9	0.04	62.6	0.05	63.3	0.11	64.4	0.14

^a. Episodes in which a person has less pain when 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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T11_1_16_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/11_supportive_palliative_care/T11_1_16_2b.html