National Healthcare Quality Report 2004

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2004 National Healthcare Quality Report

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Table 1.89a: Percentage of patients age 65 years or older who received pneumococcal vaccine in the hospital, or had a documentation that the pneumococcal vaccine was administered prior to arrival, or pneumococcal vaccine was contraindicated because of allergy to the vaccine, or the patient refused, United States, 2000-2001 and 2002

	2002		2000-2001
Population group	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error
Total	26.13	1.11	24.76	1.19
Gender
Male	26.58	0.50	24.57	0.37
Female	26.16	0.46	25.15	0.35
Race^a
White	27.39	0.37	25.51	0.28
African American	14.25	1.07	16.62	0.80
Hispanic	15.51	1.91
Native American	37.31	3.01
Asian	23.11	2.91
Other			26.04	1.04
Age
65-74	27.47	0.64	26.31	0.55
75-84	27.61	0.53	26.40	0.42
85 and over	23.34	0.61	22.99	0.46

^a Race categories changed in 2002 data.

Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program.

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