Table 1.120
Percent of improvement in upper body dressinga for home health episodes, by State, 2002 and 2004
  2004 2002
State Observed percent Risk adjusted percentb Standard error of observed percent Observed percent Risk adjusted percentb Standard error of observed percent
United States 65.7   0.04 61.3   0.04
Alabama 65.2 66.9 0.28 58.4 60.7 0.29
Alaska 55.6 65.2 1.53 51.2 61.3 1.73
Arizona 68.1 65.6 0.34 65.1 63.7 0.39
Arkansas 65.7 63.7 0.43 60.5 59.0 0.45
California 64.6 67.0 0.12 59.5 61.5 0.13
Colorado 68.9 66.2 0.40 64.2 63.5 0.48
Connecticut 65.3 64.6 0.35 62.2 58.6 0.39
Delaware 65.0 61.7 0.74 63.1 60.1 0.73
District of Columbia 61.0 61.7 1.18 62.8 61.4 1.03
Florida 65.6 64.1 0.12 63.2 61.3 0.14
Georgia 65.2 66.7 0.26 59.8 61.5 0.28
Hawaii 58.4 70.1 0.92 55.2 63.6 0.88
Idaho 61.6 63.3 0.71 61.8 63.0 0.79
Illinois 67.8 67.3 0.19 63.6 62.4 0.21
Indiana 67.4 67.4 0.33 61.6 61.8 0.36
Iowa 71.1 64.8 0.49 66.2 59.8 0.54
Kansas 68.8 68.2 0.51 61.5 61.0 0.60
Kentucky 63.5 63.8 0.32 59.3 58.8 0.34
Louisiana 62.5 63.2 0.33 58.2 59.5 0.34
Maine 65.3 64.9 0.57 61.0 60.6 0.62
Maryland 69.2 69.0 0.30 64.9 64.0 0.33
Massachusetts 67.8 65.0 0.24 62.1 58.7 0.28
Michigan 70.5 69.1 0.18 66.8 64.7 0.20
Minnesota 66.2 65.3 0.45 62.9 61.0 0.53
Mississippi 65.1 65.8 0.36 57.9 60.4 0.39
Missouri 71.5 67.2 0.26 67.5 64.3 0.28
Montana 63.5 67.7 0.91 56.6 59.2 0.98
Nebraska 72.3 69.5 0.64 66.2 62.6 0.73
Nevada 67.7 66.0 0.53 63.9 62.3 0.66
New Hampshire 66.3 66.0 0.73 62.5 62.2 0.79
New Jersey 68.2 65.5 0.22 65.8 62.5 0.24
New Mexico 67.2 67.5 0.57 65.9 66.7 0.58
New York 65.7 63.7 0.16 62.7 60.2 0.18
North Carolina 65.2 65.5 0.22 59.6 61.2 0.24
North Dakota 71.3 65.3 1.05 67.0 62.5 1.11
Ohio 66.8 64.5 0.21 62.4 60.4 0.23
Oklahoma 63.8 61.9 0.36 60.0 59.0 0.40
Oregon 58.3 67.4 0.38 53.9 63.2 0.40
Pennsylvania 67.5 67.0 0.15 61.4 60.9 0.17
Rhode Island 70.8 65.3 0.53 65.8 62.5 0.64
South Carolina 68.3 69.8 0.32 61.9 62.3 0.35
South Dakota 70.5 71.8 1.01 62.3 59.9 1.13
Tennessee 65.1 67.6 0.25 60.6 63.3 0.27
Texas 60.2 61.2 0.15 54.7 56.2 0.17
Utah 71.9 69.7 0.47 66.9 65.9 0.53
Vermont 67.5 66.4 0.86 63.9 61.6 1.07
Virginia 64.5 65.5 0.25 61.1 63.0 0.27
Washington 61.0 67.2 0.34 56.1 62.0 0.36
West Virginia 60.9 67.5 0.48 54.2 59.6 0.50
Wisconsin 63.9 65.4 0.42 60.4 60.8 0.46
Wyoming 69.6 65.5 1.40 61.7 60.0 1.60

a Consumer language used on the Home Health Compare Web site for this measure is: Percentage of patients who get better at getting dressed.

b Only observed national rate reported as in Home Health Compare.

Source: Calculated by the Center for Health Services and Policy Research, University of Colorado, from Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data.

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