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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.

Table 13_1_3.4_1
Adults who needed care right away for an illness, injury, or condition in the last 12 months who sometimes or never got care as soon as wanted, Medicare managed care, by State, 2010
State	Percent	SE
Alabama	10.6	1.0
Arizona	11.2	0.8
Arkansas	16.4	2.1
California	9.7	0.5
Colorado	8.1	1.0
Connecticut	9.1	1.3
Delaware	11.1	2.4
District of Columbia	7.7	3.6
Florida	11.6	0.5
Georgia	10.4	1.2
Hawaii	13.9	1.5
Idaho	7.6	1.5
Illinois	11.4	1.2
Indiana	10.2	1.3
Iowa	7.3	1.7
Kansas	7.9	2.2
Kentucky	11.4	1.4
Louisiana	12.6	1.4
Maine	5.6	1.2
Maryland	12.8	1.9
Massachusetts	8.1	0.9
Michigan	8.9	1.3
Minnesota	5.0	0.7
Mississippi	10.1	2.4
Missouri	9.1	1.0
Montana	1.6	1.3
Nebraska	7.0	1.7
Nevada	12.1	1.3
New Jersey	12.4	1.5
New Mexico	11.4	1.6
New York	10.7	0.6
North Carolina	9.7	1.3
Ohio	9.6	0.8
Oklahoma	11.3	1.5
Oregon	7.0	0.7
Pennsylvania	9.0	0.7
Puerto Rico	11.0	0.6
Rhode Island	7.4	1.5
South Carolina	14.0	1.9
Tennessee	10.1	1.0
Texas	12.6	0.7
Utah	8.5	1.3
Vermont	13.3	8.8
Virginia	7.2	1.4
Washington	5.6	0.8
West Virginia	8.5	2.3
Wisconsin	5.5	0.9

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_3_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_3_4_1.html