T11_1_9_2a

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_9.2a
Home health care patients who needed urgent, unplanned medical care, by race,^a United States, 2009
				Single race
		Total		White		Black		Asian		NHOPI		AI/AN		Multiple races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		22.0	0.02	21.9	0.02	24.7	0.06	15.6	0.14	20.9	0.48	25.7	0.31	23.9	0.57
Age	0-64	26.4	0.05	27.1	0.07	26.2	0.10	20.3	0.49	24.7	1.13	29.3	0.61	29.9	1.18
	65-74	20.9	0.04	20.9	0.05	23.4	0.11	14.2	0.26	20.3	0.87	25.4	0.59	21.3	1.09
	75-84	21.1	0.03	21.1	0.04	24.0	0.11	14.7	0.22	19.3	0.80	24.0	0.58	22.2	1.01
	85 and over	21.3	0.04	21.2	0.04	24.9	0.15	16.5	0.29	20.6	1.12	22.6	0.72	21.7	1.26
Gender	Male	23.0	0.03	23.1	0.04	24.9	0.10	17.5	0.23	22.2	0.76	26.9	0.51	24.5	0.94
Gender	Female	21.3	0.02	21.2	0.03	24.6	0.07	14.3	0.17	20.0	0.61	24.9	0.39	23.6	0.71

^a. Episodes with an assessment indicating that urgent or unplanned medical care was initiated. Excludes records with missing race 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_2a: 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_2a.html