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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.

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Adults who had an appointment for routine health care in the last 12 months who sometimes or never got appointments for routine care as soon as wanted, Medicare managed care, by State, 2010
State	Percent	SE
Alabama	12.8	0.7
Arizona	14.1	0.6
Arkansas	15.8	1.5
California	13.2	0.3
Colorado	11.7	0.7
Connecticut	14.0	1.0
Delaware	13.1	1.5
District of Columbia	21.8	3.7
Florida	13.8	0.4
Georgia	13.6	0.8
Hawaii	18.5	1.1
Idaho	10.9	1.1
Illinois	16.2	0.9
Indiana	12.4	0.8
Iowa	11.4	1.2
Kansas	11.1	1.6
Kentucky	14.1	1.0
Louisiana	15.6	0.9
Maine	9.5	0.9
Maryland	14.4	1.3
Massachusetts	12.1	0.7
Michigan	10.7	0.9
Minnesota	10.0	0.6
Mississippi	18.3	2.1
Missouri	11.3	0.7
Montana	9.4	1.8
Nebraska	10.3	1.3
Nevada	15.9	1.0
New Jersey	14.4	0.9
New Mexico	18.1	1.2
New York	14.3	0.4
North Carolina	11.9	0.9
Ohio	11.7	0.5
Oklahoma	12.7	1.0
Oregon	10.0	0.5
Pennsylvania	12.1	0.5
Puerto Rico	14.2	0.6
Rhode Island	10.6	1.1
South Carolina	16.3	1.4
Tennessee	12.2	0.7
Texas	15.4	0.5
Utah	14.8	1.0
Vermont	10.6	4.5
Virginia	11.1	1.1
Washington	10.6	0.7
West Virginia	13.0	1.7
Wisconsin	10.9	0.7

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, National CAHPS Benchmarking Database.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T13_1_1_4_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/nhqrdr11/13_timeliness/T13_1_1_4_1.html