Home health care patients who had to be admitted to the hospital, by racea, United States, 2003 |
| Population group | Total | Single race | Multiple races | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | Asian | NHOPI | AI/AN | |||||||||||
| Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | ||
| Total | 27.8 | 0.0 | 26.7 | 0.0 | 33.9 | 0.1 | 21.5 | 0.2 | 26.0 | 0.6 | 31.2 | 0.3 | 29.0 | 0.7 | |
| Age | 0-64 | 34.1 | 0.1 | 33.8 | 0.1 | 35.8 | 0.1 | 27.6 | 0.7 | 31.2 | 1.5 | 36.1 | 0.7 | 33.7 | 1.6 |
| 65-74 | 27.3 | 0.1 | 26.3 | 0.1 | 32.9 | 0.1 | 19.7 | 0.3 | 24.4 | 1.1 | 29.7 | 0.7 | 27.1 | 1.4 | |
| 75-84 | 26.4 | 0.0 | 25.7 | 0.0 | 32.5 | 0.1 | 20.4 | 0.3 | 23.8 | 1.0 | 29.8 | 0.6 | 28.1 | 1.3 | |
| 85 and over | 26.4 | 0.1 | 25.5 | 0.1 | 34.3 | 0.2 | 23.7 | 0.5 | 28.2 | 1.5 | 28.5 | 0.8 | 27.4 | 1.7 | |
| Gender | Male | 29.5 | 0.0 | 28.6 | 0.1 | 35.0 | 0.1 | 23.4 | 0.3 | 27.8 | 1.0 | 32.4 | 0.6 | 29.5 | 1.2 |
| Female | 26.8 | 0.0 | 25.7 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 0.1 | 20.2 | 0.2 | 24.9 | 0.8 | 30.4 | 0.4 | 28.8 | 0.9 | |
a Excluded records with missing values.
Key: NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; SE: Standard error.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.