Table 10_1_8-2a

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_8.2a
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medication correctly, 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		42.8	0.0	43.2	0.0	43.9	0.1	40.3	0.3	42.0	0.9	41.7	0.6	40.5	1.1
Age	0-64	47.9	0.1	48.0	0.1	49.3	0.2	46.5	1.0	47.4	2.3	47.0	1.3	51.5	2.6
	65-74	53.8	0.1	56.6	0.1	49.4	0.2	48.9	0.6	48.2	1.7	48.6	1.2	47.5	2.3
	75-84	44.1	0.1	45.1	0.1	42.1	0.2	40.9	0.4	43.7	1.4	41.1	1.0	38.6	1.8
	85 and over	32.5	0.1	32.8	0.1	32.6	0.2	30.4	0.5	28.2	1.7	30.4	1.1	29.9	2.0
Gender	Male	43.3	0.1	43.9	0.1	43.4	0.2	40.8	0.4	41.7	1.4	41.6	0.9	41.0	1.7
Gender	Female	42.5	0.1	42.8	0.1	44.2	0.1	40.1	0.3	42.3	1.1	41.7	0.7	40.3	1.4

^a Episodes in which a person showed improvement in ability to manage oral medications compared to a prior assessment.� Episodes for people who are at the highest level and cannot improve any more are excluded.� 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_8-2a: 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_8-2a.html