T16_4_8_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_4_8.1
Children who did not have problems seeing a specialist they needed to see in the last 12 months, United States, 2002-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004		2003		2002
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		78.5	1.8	77.9	1.5	79.0	1.4	76.7	1.6	77.9	1.2	75.8	1.3
Age	0-5	78.3	2.9	80.0	2.6	77.9	2.5	79.0	2.8	81.8	1.9	76.0	2.4
Age	6-17	78.6	2.0	77.0	1.8	79.4	1.6	75.8	1.9	76.1	1.5	75.7	1.5
Gender	Male	79.5	1.9	78.4	1.9	77.0	2.0	75.4	2.1	78.4	1.7	76.0	1.7
Gender	Female	77.3	2.7	77.2	2.2	81.4	1.8	78.2	2.0	77.3	1.8	75.5	1.8
Race	White, single race	78.7	2.1	78.5	1.7	79.9	1.5	77.5	1.8	79.1	1.2	76.2	1.4
	Black, single race	77.0	3.6	76.5	3.0	74.6	3.7	74.6	4.1	72.9	3.6	77.9	3.6
	Asian, single race	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	NHOPI, single race	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	AI/AN, single race	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Multiple races	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic, all races	79.5	1.8	78.4	1.7	79.5	1.5	77.3	1.7	78.4	1.2	76.1	1.4
	Non-Hispanic, White	79.6	2.1	79.2	1.9	80.6	1.6	78.1	2.0	79.9	1.3	76.8	1.6
	Non-Hispanic, Black	78.0	3.5	76.9	3.0	75.3	3.8	75.3	4.1	71.9	3.7	77.3	3.7
	Hispanic, all races	73.0	4.1	74.7	3.1	76.2	2.9	72.8	3.8	75.0	2.9	73.7	2.7
Family income^a	Negative/poor	75.0	3.7	69.5	3.2	75.3	3.0	73.5	3.7	71.2	3.3	68.5	3.7
	Near poor/low	76.6	3.2	78.3	3.2	77.3	2.8	71.7	3.6	74.4	3.2	72.4	3.0
	Middle	76.2	4.1	78.4	2.9	78.7	2.7	73.9	3.1	77.7	2.2	76.9	2.1
	High	82.1	2.2	80.3	2.6	81.5	2.2	83.2	2.4	82.1	2.0	78.9	2.4
Health insurance	Any private	81.0	2.4	80.5	1.8	80.6	1.6	79.3	1.8	79.9	1.5	77.4	1.6
	Public only	73.5	2.8	69.9	2.6	75.1	2.5	71.0	3.0	72.7	2.3	71.6	2.5
	Uninsured	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	78.1	2.0	78.2	1.6	78.9	1.5	76.6	1.8	78.3	1.3	76.1	1.4
	Large central metro	76.2	3.0	75.4	2.6	75.6	2.6	68.4	3.3	75.4	2.6	71.7	2.6
	Large fringe metro	79.0	3.6	78.6	3.1	78.5	2.5	77.1	3.4	79.7	2.5	80.4	2.5
	Medium metro	80.8	3.3	82.9	2.8	83.0	3.1	85.9	2.5	77.0	2.5	75.8	2.7
	Small metro	74.3	5.8	74.4	6.0	81.0	4.1	80.2	5.6	84.8	3.7	77.2	2.9
	Nonmetropolitan	81.3	3.1	75.4	4.6	79.7	3.4	77.5	3.4	75.4	3.2	73.6	2.7
	Micropolitan	79.8	4.0	71.0	5.4	78.7	3.9	78.0	4.0	75.4	4.6	72.5	3.7
	Noncore	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Language spoken most often at home	English	78.3	2.0	78.6	1.6	79.7	1.5	76.9	1.7	78.6	1.2	76.3	1.4
Language spoken most often at home	Other	81.6	3.1	69.6	5.0	72.8	4.4	73.7	3.9	69.9	4.2	70.0	3.8
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	79.4	1.8	78.8	1.5	79.7	1.5	77.4	1.7	78.4	1.2	76.5	1.3
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	DSU	DSU	62.3	5.9	70.8	4.4	65.3	6.1	69.9	5.0	65.8	4.7
CSHCN^c	Yes	76.4	2.3	75.6	2.2	76.5	1.9	73.3	2.5	75.2	2.0	72.8	2.0
CSHCN^c	No	80.5	2.6	80.9	2.0	81.9	1.8	79.3	1.9	80.1	1.5	78.6	1.6
U.S. born	Yes	78.6	1.9	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	78.3	1.2	76.1	1.4
U.S. born	No	DSU	DSU	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DNC	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU

^a. Negative/poor refers to household 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.

^b. For more information, see the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) entry in Appendix B: Detailed Methods.

^c. CSHCN: Children with special health care needs. For details, refer to the MEPS documentation for the 2008� Full Year Consolidated Data File at http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/download_data_files_detail.jsp?cboPufNumber=HC-121.

DNC - Data not collected.

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: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T16_4_8_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_4_8_1.html