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Table 1.119: Percent of improvement in dyspnea^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	55.06		0.04	53.23		0.04

Alabama	54.98	51.90	0.29	51.23	47.82	0.29
Alaska	48.08	54.64	1.66	44.46	50.82	1.60
Arizona	60.33	59.89	0.38	60.27	59.76	0.40
Arkansas	49.24	47.37	0.43	47.57	45.55	0.42
California	57.98	59.54	0.14	54.14	55.86	0.14
Colorado	51.40	58.04	0.39	50.16	56.92	0.42
Connecticut	55.41	58.90	0.34	53.65	57.31	0.34
Delaware	58.97	59.95	0.73	58.53	59.21	0.66
District of Columbia	60.94	62.00	1.18	61.78	62.26	1.04
Florida	56.53	54.12	0.13	55.35	52.54	0.13
Georgia	57.40	54.25	0.28	55.59	52.33	0.28
Hawaii	57.37	62.60	1.09	55.37	60.95	1.05
Idaho	47.61	51.38	0.71	50.69	54.42	0.73
Illinois	56.61	57.72	0.20	55.14	56.17	0.20
Indiana	52.51	52.75	0.32	51.99	52.30	0.33
Iowa	48.69	50.04	0.47	46.41	48.42	0.47
Kansas	48.16	50.57	0.51	44.57	47.48	0.52
Kentucky	50.43	48.80	0.30	48.04	45.89	0.30
Louisiana	48.29	44.84	0.31	46.13	42.63	0.31
Maine	52.19	53.21	0.51	51.94	53.29	0.52
Maryland	60.34	59.95	0.34	57.69	57.68	0.35
Massachusetts	51.72	53.33	0.22	51.15	53.08	0.22
Michigan	60.00	59.47	0.18	57.69	57.43	0.19
Minnesota	53.97	55.44	0.43	51.61	53.17	0.45
Mississippi	54.55	50.01	0.34	51.91	47.08	0.36
Missouri	55.27	55.72	0.26	54.11	54.21	0.26
Montana	47.62	52.33	0.84	45.22	49.64	0.85
Nebraska	53.01	56.10	0.62	48.39	51.94	0.63
Nevada	53.93	54.71	0.57	54.93	55.31	0.61
New Hampshire	54.01	55.86	0.62	53.20	53.98	0.62
New Jersey	59.44	60.31	0.24	59.82	60.50	0.24
New Mexico	59.19	63.80	0.62	57.59	62.85	0.61
New York	57.09	59.35	0.16	54.67	57.77	0.17
North Carolina	57.72	56.53	0.24	56.47	55.36	0.25
North Dakota	53.02	52.84	0.89	48.71	48.71	0.86
Ohio	55.44	55.66	0.20	53.44	53.73	0.21
Oklahoma	46.59	43.46	0.34	45.21	41.81	0.35
Oregon	55.33	59.52	0.42	53.30	57.06	0.42
Pennsylvania	54.27	55.11	0.15	52.13	53.15	0.16
Puerto Rico^b				61.44	59.87	0.46
Rhode Island	60.95	61.84	0.52	57.50	60.30	0.55
South Carolina	61.87	60.39	0.37	59.52	57.45	0.37
South Dakota	46.95	50.35	0.89	46.54	50.35	0.93
Tennessee	53.24	51.15	0.25	51.39	49.07	0.25
Texas	48.11	45.70	0.16	46.35	43.52	0.16
Utah	57.95	60.07	0.50	58.09	59.50	0.51
Vermont	53.12	55.95	0.83	52.04	55.09	0.86
Virgin Islands^b				55.00	62.42	7.87
Virginia	55.09	55.22	0.28	53.99	53.98	0.28
Washington	55.76	58.07	0.36	53.09	55.90	0.36
West Virginia	47.58	49.17	0.49	45.82	47.05	0.49
Wisconsin	51.35	54.94	0.40	52.03	55.71	0.40
Wyoming	48.20	55.50	1.32	44.48	51.17	1.38

^a Consumer language for this measure is: Percentage of patients who are short of breath less often. The CMS report results of testing this language is available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/OASIS/

^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 1.119: Percent of improvement in dyspneaa for home health episodes, by State, 2002 and 2003

Table 1.119: Percent of improvement in dyspnea^a for home health episodes, by State, 2002 and 2003