Table 10_1_7-2a

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_7.2a
Home health care patients who get better at bathing, by race,^a United States, 2008
				Single race
		Total		White		Black		Asian		NHOPI		AI/AN		Multiple races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		64.5	0.0	65.4	0.0	61.7	0.1	64.9	0.2	64.8	0.7	62.8	0.5	63.1	0.9
Age	0-64	64.8	0.1	65.5	0.1	64.3	0.2	66.3	0.8	63.4	1.7	63.8	0.9	64.8	1.9
	65-74	71.7	0.1	73.7	0.1	65.4	0.2	70.8	0.4	70.2	1.2	67.4	0.8	70.1	1.7
	75-84	65.7	0.1	66.8	0.1	60.2	0.2	65.3	0.4	65.8	1.2	62.7	0.8	62.1	1.5
	85 and over	56.0	0.1	56.5	0.1	52.6	0.2	57.1	0.5	55.9	1.7	55.1	1.1	55.1	1.9
Gender	Male	65.4	0.1	66.4	0.1	62.1	0.2	64.8	0.4	65.6	1.1	62.2	0.8	62.1	1.4
Gender	Female	64.0	0.0	64.8	0.0	61.4	0.1	65.0	0.3	64.3	0.9	63.1	0.6	63.8	1.1

^a Episodes in which a person's ability to bathe improved compared to a prior assessment.� Episodes for people who are at the highest level and cannot improve any more are excluded. Also excludes records with missing race values.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 10_1_7-2a: 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_7-2a.html