NHQRDR 2010 /T7_2_4-1

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 7_2_4.1
People age 12 and over treated for substance abuse who completed treatment course, United States,� 2005-2007
		2007		2006		2005
Population group		Number of discharges	Percent	Number of discharges	Percent	Number of discharges	Percent
Total		1,626,963	45.1	1,499,913	47.5	1,476,115	45.0
Age	12-19	186,412	40.1	167,268	42.6	169,026	41.3
	20-39	842,350	43.2	775,357	45.2	772,218	42.7
	40 and over	596,522	49.4	557,288	52.0	534,871	49.4
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	217,355	45.8	229,657	46.7	217,807	46.0
	Non-Hispanic, White	948,528	46.6	852,051	49.2	829,689	46.7
	Non-Hispanic, Black	349,879	41.0	339,464	43.6	340,649	40.4
Gender	Male	1,099,390	47.1	1,027,240	49.3	1,008,546	47.1
Gender	Female	527,204	41.0	472,409	43.5	467,365	40.4
Education, age 18 and over	Less than high school	601,756	40.6	561,867	43.1	562,591	41.0
	High school graduate	645,019	46.1	591,525	48.7	583,124	46.3
	At least some college	349,923	50.7	316,882	52.7	291,859	50.0

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Treatment Episode Data Set Discharge data set. The 2005 discharges reported through April 28, 2008; 2006 discharges reported through September 3, 2008; 2007 discharges reported through August 31, 2009.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: NHQRDR 2010 /T7_2_4-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/7_mentalhealthsubstanceabuse/T7_2_4-1.html