Table 10_1_6_3

2011 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_6.3
Long-stay^a nursing home residents who spent most of their time in bed or in a chair, by race/ethnicity,^b 2009^c
				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		3.97	0.02	3.72	0.02	5.44	0.06	4.12	0.27	4.16	0.14	3.90	0.08
Age^b	0-64	5.81	0.06	5.74	0.07	5.90	0.11	6.43	0.64	6.62	0.46	5.74	0.22
	65-74	4.92	0.05	4.86	0.06	5.51	0.13	4.17	0.62	5.26	0.44	3.76	0.20
	75-84	3.91	0.03	3.71	0.04	5.38	0.11	3.22	0.46	3.92	0.25	3.50	0.14
	85 and over	3.13	0.02	2.96	0.03	5.00	0.10	2.62	0.41	3.09	0.19	3.04	0.14
Gender^b	Male	3.90	0.03	3.67	0.04	4.63	0.08	4.17	0.41	4.94	0.26	4.06	0.13
Gender^b	Female	4.01	0.02	3.74	0.02	5.97	0.08	4.08	0.35	3.74	0.17	3.78	0.11

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

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

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

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_6_3: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/10_functional_status/T10_1_6_3.html