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Table 1.115: Percent of improvement in transferring^a for home health episodes, by State, 2002 and 2003

	2003			2002
State	Observed percent	Risk adjusted percent^c	Standard error of observed rate	Observed percent	Risk adjusted percent^c	Standard error of observed rate

United States	49.40		0.04	48.49		0.04

Alabama	47.10	50.06	0.28	45.86	49.08	0.28
Alaska	46.68	52.75	1.58	41.47	46.44	1.67
Arizona	52.51	49.89	0.34	51.69	49.40	0.37
Arkansas	47.42	47.98	0.42	46.87	47.56	0.43
California	48.73	48.43	0.12	47.26	47.01	0.13
Colorado	48.73	46.98	0.37	49.58	48.41	0.42
Connecticut	45.69	45.41	0.33	47.45	46.04	0.35
Delaware	52.53	49.99	0.70	52.34	48.73	0.65
District of Columbia	52.21	47.21	1.04	53.89	50.44	0.97
Florida	51.08	50.74	0.12	50.65	50.10	0.13
Georgia	51.75	52.58	0.26	50.53	51.73	0.27
Hawaii	46.63	50.69	0.84	44.79	47.99	0.82
Idaho	49.66	48.67	0.66	49.02	49.17	0.70
Illinois	50.07	49.02	0.18	49.51	48.49	0.19
Indiana	49.76	50.45	0.32	48.53	49.41	0.33
Iowa	47.31	44.51	0.47	44.29	42.11	0.48
Kansas	48.91	49.21	0.50	46.09	46.62	0.54
Kentucky	47.16	48.87	0.31	47.88	49.20	0.32
Louisiana	42.36	43.80	0.31	41.72	43.57	0.32
Maine	47.89	48.63	0.55	48.71	49.73	0.57
Maryland	53.73	52.89	0.30	53.37	52.70	0.32
Massachusetts	46.09	44.85	0.23	45.54	43.69	0.24
Michigan	53.40	52.04	0.18	51.33	49.99	0.19
Minnesota	47.25	44.59	0.41	45.43	43.51	0.44
Mississippi	46.72	49.36	0.35	45.46	47.92	0.36
Missouri	53.53	51.49	0.26	51.73	49.87	0.26
Montana	44.38	45.45	0.77	38.61	40.08	0.77
Nebraska	49.60	47.80	0.60	44.64	42.73	0.62
Nevada	53.35	50.48	0.56	52.55	49.24	0.61
New Hampshire	48.15	47.24	0.64	47.26	47.08	0.66
New Jersey	54.07	53.52	0.23	54.85	53.72	0.23
New Mexico	54.53	53.15	0.59	51.54	51.09	0.59
New York	49.86	49.59	0.16	50.56	49.81	0.17
North Carolina	52.57	52.59	0.23	49.94	51.01	0.23
North Dakota	39.03	36.34	0.87	41.47	39.14	0.89
Ohio	52.36	51.60	0.20	50.52	49.66	0.21
Oklahoma	43.90	45.11	0.35	44.19	45.24	0.37
Oregon	46.62	49.84	0.37	44.99	48.36	0.37
Pennsylvania	49.24	49.22	0.15	47.88	47.89	0.16
Puerto Rico^b				51.81	53.77	0.38
Rhode Island	47.11	46.19	0.52	47.32	46.39	0.56
South Carolina	55.65	54.76	0.33	53.19	52.39	0.34
South Dakota	46.29	48.28	0.93	44.19	43.49	0.97
Tennessee	48.35	50.58	0.25	47.00	49.55	0.25
Texas	42.27	43.97	0.15	41.72	43.45	0.16
Utah	56.08	54.37	0.46	52.08	51.11	0.48
Vermont	48.35	47.41	0.86	51.14	48.30	0.89
Virgin Islands^b				56.82	55.73	5.28
Virginia	49.88	50.92	0.25	49.36	50.12	0.26
Washington	46.54	48.37	0.31	45.95	47.85	0.32
West Virginia	49.00	53.37	0.47	45.42	49.22	0.48
Wisconsin	45.63	45.26	0.37	47.29	46.81	0.39
Wyoming	54.42	52.60	1.36	50.36	48.42	1.42

^a Consumer language used on the Home Health Compare Web site for this measure is: Percentage of patients who get better at getting in and out of bed.

^bData not available for year 2003.

^c Only observed national rate reported as in Home Health Compare.

Source: Calculated by the Center for Health Services and Policy Research, University of Colorado, from Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data.

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Table 1.115: Percent of improvement in transferringa for home health episodes, by State, 2002 and 2003

Table 1.115: Percent of improvement in transferring^a for home health episodes, by State, 2002 and 2003