Table 10_1_3-2

2010 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 10_1_3.2
Long-stay^a nursing home residents whose ability to move about in and around their room got worse, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2008^b
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		AI/AN		API		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		15.7	0.0	16.1	0.0	13.9	0.1	13.2	0.5	13.6	0.3	14.5	0.2
Age^c	0-64	10.3	0.1	10.8	0.1	9.4	0.2	7.8	0.8	7.1	0.6	10.1	0.3
	65-74	14.5	0.1	14.8	0.1	13.5	0.2	14.0	1.2	12.7	0.8	13.5	0.4
	75-84	16.8	0.1	17.0	0.1	15.9	0.2	15.2	1.1	15.3	0.6	16.4	0.4
	85 and over	17.2	0.1	17.2	0.1	17.6	0.2	16.0	1.1	15.3	0.5	16.8	0.4
Gender^c	Male	14.6	0.1	15.3	0.1	12.0	0.2	12.0	0.7	12.6	0.5	13.0	0.3
Gender^c	Female	16.3	0.1	16.4	0.1	15.4	0.2	14.3	0.7	14.2	0.4	15.8	0.3

^a Long-stay residents enter a nursing facility typically because they are no longer able to care for themselves at home. They tend to stay in the facility for several months or years

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

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

Additional detail may be found in the measure specification appendix

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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_3-2: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/10_functional_status/T10_1_3-2.html