T5_2_7_2

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 5_2_7.2
Adult patients with HIV who received two or more CD4 tests during the year,^a by race/ethnicity, United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		White		Black		Hispanic
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		82.8	0.3	83.8	0.6	80.4	0.4	87.9	0.5
Age	18-44	80.6	0.5	81.7	0.9	77.2	0.7	86.8	0.8
Age	45 and over	84.8	0.4	85.3	0.7	83.0	0.6	89.1	0.7
Gender	Male	82.7	0.4	83.9	0.6	79.7	0.6	87.4	0.7
Gender	Female	83.1	0.5	82.9	1.5	81.5	0.7	89.1	0.9
Health insurance	Private	78.9	0.8	80.9	1.3	76.8	1.3	80.0	2.2
	Medicaid	81.8	0.5	84.9	1.1	78.5	0.7	88.2	0.8
	Medicare/dual eligible	87.9	0.6	88.5	1.1	87.6	0.8	88.4	1.5
	Ryan White Program/uninsured	83.9	0.6	82.7	1.2	80.9	1.0	90.0	0.9

^a. Denominator includes adult HIV patients enrolled in an HIV Research Network medical practice prior to each data year, excluding patients who died or did not have an outpatient visit during the year.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, HIV Research Network.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T5_2_7_2: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/5_hiv_aids/T5_2_7_2.html