T11_1_9_1

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_9.1
Home health care patients who needed urgent, unplanned medical care, United States,^a 2004-2009
		2009		2008		2007		2006		2005		2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		22.0	0.02	21.7	0.02	21.2	0.02	21.2	0.02	21.1	0.02	21.1	0.02
Age^b	0-64	26.4	0.05	25.9	0.05	25.6	0.05	25.7	0.06	25.4	0.06	25.5	0.06
	65-74	20.9	0.04	20.6	0.04	20.1	0.04	20.2	0.04	20.2	0.04	20.2	0.04
	75-84	21.1	0.03	20.9	0.03	20.3	0.03	20.3	0.03	20.2	0.03	20.2	0.03
	85 and over	21.3	0.04	21.2	0.04	20.6	0.04	20.7	0.04	20.5	0.04	20.5	0.04
Gender^b	Male	23.0	0.03	22.8	0.03	22.3	0.03	22.2	0.03	22.1	0.04	22.1	0.04
Gender^b	Female	21.3	0.02	21.0	0.03	20.6	0.03	20.6	0.03	20.5	0.03	20.5	0.03
Race^b	White only	21.9	0.02	21.6	0.02	21.1	0.02	21.1	0.02	20.8	0.02	20.8	0.02
	Black only	24.7	0.06	24.2	0.06	23.8	0.06	24.0	0.06	24.0	0.06	24.0	0.06
	Asian only	15.6	0.14	15.6	0.15	15.1	0.15	15.9	0.16	16.4	0.16	16.4	0.17
	NHOPI only	20.9	0.48	21.7	0.49	20.2	0.49	21.2	0.50	19.1	0.48	19.1	0.51
	AI/AN only	25.7	0.31	25.8	0.31	24.5	0.32	25.1	0.33	24.6	0.33	25.1	0.33
	Multiple races	23.9	0.57	22.6	0.59	23.4	0.59	23.0	0.61	21.8	0.62	23.5	0.66
Ethnicity^b	Hispanic, all races	19.5	0.07	19.7	0.07	19.2	0.07	19.4	0.08	19.9	0.08	20.3	0.08
	Non-Hispanic, White	21.9	0.02	21.6	0.02	21.1	0.02	21.1	0.02	20.8	0.02	20.8	0.02
	Non-Hispanic, Black	24.7	0.06	24.2	0.06	23.8	0.06	24.0	0.06	24.0	0.06	24.0	0.06
	Non-Hispanic, other	19.0	0.09	18.8	0.09	18.0	0.09	18.7	0.10	18.7	0.10	19.0	0.10

^a. Episodes with an assessment indicating that urgent or unplanned medical care was initiated.

^b. Excludes records with missing 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: T11_1_9_1: 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_9_1.html