Table 9_1_13-2

2008 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 9_1_13.2
Short-stay nursing home residents who had moderate to severe pain, by race/ethnicity,^a United States, 2006^b
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic								Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		AI/AN		API		Hispanic, all races
		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		22.3	0.0	23.1	0.0	17.3	0.1	26.4	0.7	15.6	0.3	18.1	0.2
Age^a	0–64	31.1	0.2	33.0	0.3	26.0	0.4	36.6	2.6	23.5	1.9	27.7	0.8
	65–74	26.1	0.1	28.4	0.2	18.3	0.3	28.5	2.0	20.8	1.1	19.2	0.5
	75–84	20.9	0.1	22.1	0.1	13.7	0.2	22.5	1.5	14.7	0.7	14.7	0.4
	85 and over	16.2	0.1	16.9	0.1	10.6	0.2	16.2	1.5	10.2	0.6	11.3	0.4
Gender^a	Male	18.1	0.1	18.7	0.1	14.8	0.2	23.3	1.0	12.0	0.5	15.3	0.3
Gender^a	Female	24.5	0.1	25.3	0.1	18.9	0.1	28.6	0.9	18.0	0.4	20.1	0.3

^a Age, gender, and race/ethnicity categories exclude records with missing values.

^b Data reflect care for the third quarter of each calendar year.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Minimum Data Set.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_1_13-2: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/9_nursinghome_homehealth_hospice/T9_1_13-2.html