Table 9_3_1-1

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_3_1.1
Hospice patients who received the right amount of medicine for pain, United States, 2005 and 2007
Population group		2007			2005
Population group		Total responses	Percent	SE	Total responses	Percent
Total		135,832	94.3	0.1	96,887	94.1
Age	18–44	6,499	91.5	0.4	6,548	91.7
	45–64	35,259	94.0	0.1	30,437	93.8
	65 and over	27,311	95.0	0.1	23,408	95.1
Race	AI/AN	522	93.7	1.1	472	91.7
	API	603	88.7	1.3	488	85.5
	Black	2,370	92.4	0.5	2,136	91.0
	White	64,369	94.3	0.1	56,673	94.3
	Other race/multiple races	1,034	93.1	0.8	970	92.7
Ethnicity	Hispanic	1,811	93.1	0.6	1,613	92.4
	Non-Hispanic, all races	66,141	94.2	0.1	58,001	94.1
	Non-Hispanic, White	62,070	94.3	0.1	54,450	94.3
	Non-Hispanic, Black	2,227	92.5	0.6	2,015	91.1
Gender	Male	19,174	95.1	0.2	17,033	94.8
Gender	Female	51,188	93.8	0.1	44,785	93.7
Education	Less than high school	5,004	93.9	0.3	5,140	94.0
	High school graduate	22,342	94.9	0.2	19,914	94.4
	At least some college	40,522	93.7	0.1	34,621	93.8

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

Source: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Family Evaluation of Hospice Care Survey.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 9_3_1-1: 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_3_1-1.html