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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 received a blood pressure measurement in the last 2 years and can state whether their blood pressure was normal or high,^a United States, 1998, 2003, and 2008
		2008		2003		1998
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		92.9	0.2	90.4	0.2	90.1	0.2
Age	18-44	91.6	0.3	88.0	0.3	88.8	0.3
	45-64	93.6	0.3	92.4	0.3	91.5	0.3
	65 and over	95.4	0.3	94.3	0.4	92.1	0.4
Race	AI/AN only	92.6	2.4	89.1	3.0	DNC	DNC
	Asian only	94.1	0.7	87.1	1.4	DNC	DNC
	NHOPI only	�DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DNC	DNC
	Black only	93.4	0.5	92.0	0.5	DNC	DNC
	White only	92.7	0.2	90.3	0.3	DNC	DNC
	Multiple races	89.8	2.5	89.4	1.9	DNA	DNA
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	89.0	0.7	83.2	0.7	83.6	0.7
	Non-Hispanic, all races	93.5	0.2	91.7	0.2	91.0	0.2
	Non-Hispanic, Black	93.5	0.5	92.1	0.5	DNC	DNC
	Non-Hispanic, White	93.6	0.3	91.9	0.3	DNC	DNC
Gender	Male	90.6	0.4	87.7	0.3	87.5	0.3
Gender	Female	94.9	0.2	93.0	0.2	92.7	0.3
Health insurance,^b ages 18-64	Private	94.8	0.3	92.6	0.3	92.2	0.3
	Public only	94.2	0.6	93.1	0.5	91.7	0.7
	Uninsured	82.0	0.8	77.6	0.7	77.3	0.8
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	97.0	0.4	95.1	0.4	93.4	0.5
	Medicare and public	93.4	1.2	94.8	0.9	90.1	1.2
	Medicare only	93.2	0.8	91.7	0.9	89.0	0.9
Family income^c	Negative/poor	89.7	0.7	85.9	0.7	85.1	0.7
	Near poor/low	89.5	0.6	87.1	0.6	86.6	0.6
	Middle	92.8	0.4	90.2	0.5	90.0	0.4
	High	95.0	0.4	93.2	0.4	93.4	0.3
Education	Less than high school	87.7	0.8	82.9	0.7	83.7	0.7
	High school graduate	91.3	0.5	90.8	0.4	89.6	0.4
	At least some college	94.9	0.2	93.7	0.2	92.9	0.3
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	93.0	0.2	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Large central metro	91.6	0.5	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Large fringe metro	94.3	0.4	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Medium metro	93.6	0.4	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Small metro	92.5	0.6	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	91.6	0.5	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	93.0	0.8	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
Activity limitations^d	Basic activities	94.4	0.7	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Complex activities	94.6	0.6	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Neither basic nor complex activities	92.7	0.2	DNA	DNA	DNA	DNA

^a. Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. Age data and health insurance data for age 65 and over are unadjusted.

^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.

DNA - Data have not been analyzed.

DNC - Data have not been 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: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T2_1_1_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/nhqrdr11/2_heartdiseases/T2_1_1_1.html