T11_1_14_2

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 11_1_14.2
Short-stay^a nursing home residents who were assessed and given pneumococcal vaccination, by race/ethnicity, United States, 2009^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		81.6	0.0	83.1	0.0	72.4	0.2	81.5	0.7	77.4	0.4	73.0	0.3
Age^c	0-64	71.2	0.2	73.5	0.2	65.1	0.4	73.6	1.7	68.0	1.6	64.9	0.7
	65-74	79.7	0.1	81.5	0.1	71.9	0.3	82.9	1.2	75.9	0.9	72.2	0.5
	75-84	82.7	0.1	84.0	0.1	74.3	0.3	83.9	1.1	78.4	0.6	74.2	0.4
	85 and over	84.1	0.1	85.0	0.1	76.1	0.3	83.2	1.4	79.1	0.6	76.6	0.5
Gender^c	Male	79.4	0.1	81.2	0.1	70.3	0.2	79.9	1.1	75.2	0.6	71.2	0.4
Gender^c	Female	82.8	0.1	84.2	0.1	73.8	0.2	82.7	0.9	78.8	0.5	74.4	0.3

^a. Short-stay residents stay fewer than 30 days in a nursing home, typically following an acute care hospitalization.

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

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

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: T11_1_14_2: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/11_supportive_palliative_care/T11_1_14_2.html