T11_1_9_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 11_1_9.3b
Home health care patients who needed urgent, unplanned medical care,^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	22.0	0.0	21.9	0.0	24.7	0.1	19.5	0.1
Alabama	25.3	0.2	24.7	0.2	27.1	0.3	26.8	3.0
Alaska	20.6	0.8	19.4	0.9	13.3	3.9	22.2	6.2
Arizona	20.2	0.2	19.9	0.2	22.6	1.0	22.1	0.6
Arkansas	26.3	0.2	26.0	0.2	29.4	0.6	25.6	3.1
California	15.9	0.1	16.0	0.1	18.9	0.2	15.9	0.2
Colorado	20.4	0.2	20.2	0.2	24.7	1.2	24.4	0.7
Connecticut	27.3	0.2	25.6	0.2	36.8	0.7	36.9	0.8
Delaware	17.8	0.3	17.1	0.4	20.7	0.7	19.1	2.2
District of Columbia	18.7	0.5	10.6	1.2	20.1	0.6	DSU	DSU
Florida	16.2	0.1	16.8	0.1	20.7	0.2	10.9	0.1
Georgia	23.2	0.1	23.0	0.2	24.1	0.3	17.7	1.4
Hawaii	22.8	0.5	21.7	1.0	29.3	7.1	30.3	3.8
Idaho	18.9	0.3	18.7	0.3	DSU	DSU	22.8	2.5
Illinois	19.1	0.1	19.9	0.1	18.1	0.2	16.4	0.3
Indiana	24.3	0.2	24.2	0.2	25.3	0.5	28.4	1.3
Iowa	26.5	0.3	26.1	0.3	38.2	1.6	36.4	3.1
Kansas	20.6	0.2	20.3	0.3	26.0	0.9	24.7	1.8
Kentucky	28.5	0.2	28.7	0.2	26.5	0.6	29.2	3.3
Louisiana	32.0	0.2	30.7	0.2	35.3	0.3	23.8	1.6
Maine	22.6	0.3	22.7	0.3	25.0	4.7	20.0	5.7
Maryland	21.7	0.2	20.9	0.2	24.6	0.3	14.7	1.4
Massachusetts	23.7	0.1	23.4	0.1	28.6	0.5	26.4	0.6
Michigan	20.0	0.1	21.0	0.1	17.1	0.2	22.8	0.8
Minnesota	22.8	0.2	22.1	0.2	29.8	1.0	28.0	2.2
Mississippi	30.4	0.2	30.0	0.3	31.0	0.4	31.7	4.3
Missouri	21.0	0.1	20.5	0.1	24.8	0.4	17.8	1.8
Montana	18.2	0.4	18.0	0.4	DSU	DSU	30.2	7.0
Nebraska	19.0	0.3	18.4	0.3	25.3	1.4	20.5	2.5
Nevada	19.0	0.2	19.4	0.3	19.7	0.7	16.2	0.9
New Hampshire	21.8	0.3	21.8	0.3	21.2	4.0	30.7	4.3
New Jersey	20.7	0.1	20.0	0.1	24.4	0.4	24.7	0.5
New Mexico	23.8	0.3	23.0	0.4	32.6	2.7	23.3	0.6
New York	24.1	0.1	22.5	0.1	29.6	0.2	27.8	0.3
North Carolina	22.6	0.1	21.8	0.1	25.5	0.3	21.3	1.4
North Dakota	19.8	0.6	19.8	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ohio	25.8	0.1	25.0	0.1	29.9	0.3	28.0	1.2
Oklahoma	28.8	0.2	28.5	0.2	32.2	0.8	31.5	1.7
Oregon	20.8	0.2	20.6	0.2	29.3	1.9	24.9	2.2
Pennsylvania	20.3	0.1	20.1	0.1	22.0	0.3	21.7	0.6
Puerto Rico	12.0	0.2	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	12.0	0.2
Rhode Island	20.9	0.3	20.5	0.3	23.6	1.6	25.8	1.6
South Carolina	22.3	0.2	20.9	0.2	25.9	0.3	23.8	2.5
South Dakota	19.8	0.6	18.7	0.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Tennessee	28.4	0.1	28.3	0.1	29.9	0.4	26.2	2.7
Texas	26.0	0.1	26.1	0.1	27.8	0.2	25.1	0.2
Utah	16.3	0.2	16.2	0.3	20.5	3.7	20.3	1.6
Vermont	23.0	0.4	23.0	0.4	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Virgin Islands	19.2	2.6	DSU	DSU	20.6	3.0	DSU	DSU
Virginia	21.4	0.1	21.5	0.2	22.4	0.3	16.3	1.3
Washington	22.1	0.2	21.8	0.2	27.7	1.3	25.2	1.6
West Virginia	30.7	0.3	30.7	0.3	32.0	1.6	33.3	8.2
Wisconsin	21.8	0.2	21.2	0.2	26.5	0.8	25.4	1.6
Wyoming	24.0	0.7	24.0	0.8	DSU	DSU	23.4	4.4

^a. Episodes with an assessment indicating that urgent or unplanned medical care was initiated. 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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T11_1_9_3b: 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_3b.html