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T11_1_9_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_9.2b
Home health care patients who needed urgent, unplanned medical care, by ethnicity,a United States, 2009 | | | | Non-Hispanic | Hispanic, all races |
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| | Total | White | Black |
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Population group | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE |
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Total | | 22.0 | 0.02 | 21.9 | 0.02 | 24.7 | 0.06 | 19.5 | 0.07 |
Age | 0-64 | 26.4 | 0.05 | 27.1 | 0.07 | 26.2 | 0.10 | 23.2 | 0.16 |
65-74 | 20.9 | 0.04 | 21.0 | 0.05 | 23.4 | 0.11 | 17.7 | 0.13 |
75-84 | 21.1 | 0.03 | 21.1 | 0.04 | 24.0 | 0.11 | 18.5 | 0.12 |
85 and over | 21.3 | 0.04 | 21.2 | 0.04 | 24.9 | 0.15 | 19.1 | 0.17 |
Gender | Male | 23.0 | 0.03 | 23.1 | 0.04 | 24.9 | 0.10 | 20.7 | 0.11 |
Female | 21.3 | 0.02 | 21.2 | 0.03 | 24.6 | 0.07 | 18.6 | 0.09 |
a. Episodes with an assessment indicating that urgent or unplanned medical care was initiated. 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_9_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_9_2b.html