T17_1_1_2b

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 17_1_1.2b
People who had an office-based or outpatient department visit^a in the calendar year,^b by ethnicity, United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		73.0	0.4	75.1	0.4	77.9	0.5	65.1	0.9	61.9	1.0
Age	0-17	72.2	0.8	73.5	1.0	76.6	1.2	63.7	1.7	67.2	1.5
	18-44	63.8	0.6	67.2	0.7	70.8	0.8	54.9	1.4	48.4	1.5
	45-64	79.8	0.6	81.3	0.6	83.4	0.7	73.1	1.3	65.8	1.8
	65 and over	91.6	0.6	92.0	0.6	93.1	0.6	85.5	1.8	85.8	2.4
Gender	Male	66.7	0.5	69.1	0.6	72.3	0.7	56.1	1.1	54.8	1.3
Gender	Female	79.2	0.4	81.0	0.5	83.5	0.6	72.9	1.0	69.6	1.0
Family income^c	Negative/poor	65.7	0.9	68.3	1.1	71.8	1.5	63.5	1.5	57.3	1.6
	Near poor/low	67.0	0.8	70.2	1.0	73.8	1.3	62.3	1.7	57.5	1.5
	Middle	72.1	0.7	73.6	0.8	76.5	1.0	63.4	1.6	63.9	1.6
	High	79.6	0.6	80.4	0.7	81.8	0.8	72.7	2.1	70.7	1.9
Education,^d age 18 and over	Less than high school	63.8	0.9	68.9	1.0	71.7	1.3	62.0	1.8	54.1	1.6
	High school graduate	69.2	0.7	70.9	0.8	73.8	0.9	61.6	1.3	57.4	1.6
	At least some college	79.2	0.5	80.3	0.5	82.4	0.6	71.7	1.4	69.6	1.9
Employment status, ages 18-64	Employed	69.2	0.5	72.2	0.5	74.9	0.6	61.5	1.1	52.6	1.5
Employment status, ages 18-64	Not employed	70.6	1.0	72.5	1.1	76.8	1.3	61.5	1.8	62.0	1.7
Health insurance, ages 0-64	Any private	75.7	0.5	76.6	0.5	79.0	0.6	66.3	1.3	67.9	1.2
	Public only	75.8	0.8	77.3	1.0	81.1	1.5	71.2	1.7	70.9	1.6
	Uninsured	43.7	1.2	47.5	1.5	51.2	1.9	34.5	1.9	35.4	1.8
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	90.2	1.0	90.2	1.1	91.9	1.1	83.6	2.9	89.1	2.5
	Medicare and private	93.5	0.8	93.8	0.8	94.1	0.9	90.2	2.5	84.2	5.2
	Medicare and other public	89.6	1.6	89.8	1.8	91.6	2.7	84.2	3.8	89.1	3.8
Residence location^e	Metropolitan	73.1	0.4	75.6	0.5	78.8	0.6	65.7	0.9	61.9	1.0
	Large central metro	68.9	0.7	72.4	1.0	76.4	1.3	65.4	1.5	60.0	1.2
	Large fringe metro	76.5	0.8	78.0	0.9	80.7	0.9	67.8	2.0	63.9	2.1
	Medium metro	74.3	0.9	76.0	1.0	79.1	1.2	64.5	2.1	63.6	2.4
	Small metro	74.7	1.1	75.9	1.2	77.7	1.5	62.4	2.6	66.1	2.6
	Nonmetropolitan	72.3	0.9	73.0	0.9	74.5	1.1	59.8	2.3	61.6	3.5
	Micropolitan	73.2	1.1	73.9	1.2	75.6	1.4	61.4	2.9	58.8	4.0
	Noncore	70.8	1.5	71.2	1.7	72.4	1.9	55.5	4.5	64.6	4.8
Language spoken most often at home	English	75.4	0.4	76.0	0.5	78.4	0.5	65.3	0.9	67.9	1.4
Language spoken most often at home	Other	59.3	1.1	62.4	2.1	66.2	3.6	60.9	6.7	58.0	1.2
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	72.0	0.4	74.2	0.5	77.1	0.6	63.4	0.9	60.0	1.1
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	84.6	1.0	87.3	1.1	88.5	1.4	82.0	2.1	74.9	1.8
Activity limitations,^e age 18 and over	Basic activities	90.3	1.0	91.1	1.1	92.0	1.2	84.6	2.5	83.1	3.5
	Complex activities	92.3	0.8	92.7	0.9	94.1	0.9	87.2	2.4	88.0	2.9
	Neither basic nor complex activities	71.9	0.5	74.4	0.5	77.1	0.6	63.6	1.0	58.4	1.3
U.S. born	Yes	75.1	0.4	76.0	0.5	78.4	0.5	65.2	0.8	65.5	1.2
U.S. born	No	59.6	1.4	65.4	1.9	67.6	3.4	66.7	4.1	54.6	1.8

^a. Includes physician and nonphysician office-based visits; physician and nonphysician outpatient department visits; and inpatient visits where the admission date was the same as the discharge date ("zero-night" stays).

^b. Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population using five age groups: 0-17, 18-44, 45-64, 65-74,A50 and 75 and over.

^c. 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.

^d. Less than high school refers to fewer than 12 years of education; high school graduate, 12 years of education; and at least some college, more than 12 years of education.

^e. For more information, see the MEPS entry in Appendix B: Detailed Methods.

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

Key: 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: T17_1_1_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/17_utilization/T17_1_1_2b.html