Core Report Measure | Racial Differencei | Ethnic Differenceii | ||||
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Black | Asianiii | NHOPIiii | AI/AN | >1 Race | Hispanic | |
Timeliness | ||||||
Adults who sometimes or never can get care for illness or injury as soon as wantediv | ↓ | ↓ | = | ↓ | ||
Emergency department visits in which the patient left without being seenv | ↓ | |||||
Patient Centeredness | ||||||
Adults whose health providers sometimes or never listened carefully, explained things, showed respect, and spent enough time with themiv | = | ↓ | ↓ | = | ↓ | |
Children whose health providers sometimes or never listened carefully, explained things, showed respect, and spent enough time with themiv | = | = | = | ↓ |
i Compared with Whites.
ii Compared with non-Hispanic Whites.
iii Findings are presented separately for Asians and NHOPIs whenever possible. However, some data sources collected data for Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) as a single population; in these cases, the Asian and NHOPI cells are merged into a single cell representing APIs.
iv Source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2002. This source did not collect information for >1 race.
v Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey – Emergency Department, 2001-2002. Missing rates preclude analysis by ethnicity.
Key: NHOPI = Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; AI/AN = American Indian or Alaska Native.
Key to Symbols Used in Quality of Health Care Tables:
= Group and comparison group receive about same quality of health care or have similar outcomes.
↑ Group receives better quality of health care than the comparison group or has better outcomes.
↓ Group receives poorer quality of health care than the comparison group or has worse outcomes.
Blank cell: Reliable estimate for group could not be made.