T11_1_22_2b

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_22.2b
Home health care patients who were admitted to the hospital, by ethnicity,^a United States, 2009
				Non-Hispanic				Hispanic, all races
		Total		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		28.8	0.02	27.8	0.02	34.5	0.06	30.6	0.08
Age	0-64	35.0	0.05	34.7	0.07	36.2	0.11	34.7	0.17
	65-74	28.0	0.04	27.2	0.05	33.3	0.12	28.5	0.15
	75-84	27.6	0.04	26.9	0.04	33.9	0.12	29.6	0.14
	85 and over	26.9	0.04	26.2	0.05	34.1	0.16	30.5	0.19
Gender	Male	30.6	0.04	29.8	0.04	35.3	0.10	32.7	0.13
Gender	Female	27.7	0.03	26.6	0.03	34.1	0.08	29.3	0.10

^a. Episodes in which a person was hospitalized for an acute condition while receiving home health care services. Reason for hospitalization may be for emergent, urgent, or elective medical care.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T11_1_22_2b: 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_22_2b.html