T16_3_4_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 16_3_4.1
People who identified a hospital, emergency room, or clinic as a source of ongoing care,^a United States, 2009
Population group		Percent	SE
Total		20.3	0.4
Age	0-17	24.0	0.7
	18-44	20.9	0.5
	45-64	17.9	0.6
	65 and over	16.1	0.8
Race	AI/AN only	47.0	4.5
	Asian only	17.8	1.2
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU
	Black only	25.6	1.0
	White only	19.1	0.5
	Multiple races	26.9	2.2
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	31.7	1.0
	Non-Hispanic, all races	18.1	0.4
	Non-Hispanic, Black	25.0	1.0
	Non-Hispanic, White	16.3	0.5
Gender	Male	20.3	0.5
Gender	Female	20.3	0.5
Health insurance,^b ages 0-64	Private	14.5	0.5
	Public only	37.7	1.1
	Uninsured	24.2	0.8
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	13.7	1.1
	Medicare and public	28.3	2.0
	Medicare only	14.9	1.3
Family income^c	Negative/poor	33.2	1.1
	Near poor/low	26.0	0.8
	Middle	18.3	0.7
	High	13.4	0.5
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	26.1	1.0
	High school graduate	18.8	0.7
	At least some college	15.9	0.5
Location of residence^c	Metropolitan	19.2	0.4
	Large central metro	22.4	0.7
	Large fringe metro	14.4	0.7
	Medium metro	17.7	1.0
	Small metro	24.4	2.5
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	22.6	2.0
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	30.7	3.2
Activity limitations,^d age 18 and over	Basic activities	20.2	0.8
	Complex activities	23.8	1.1
	No limits in basic or complex	18.5	0.4

^a. Estimates are not age adjusted.

^b. A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.

^c. Negative/poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

^d. For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T16_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/nhqrdr11/16_facilitators_barriers/T16_3_4_1.html