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Table 128b
Home health care patients who get better at taking their medication correctly, by ethnicity,a United States, 2004
        Non-Hispanic Hispanic, all races
    Total White Black
Population group Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Total 38.8 0.0 39.0 0.1 39.3 0.1 36.7 0.2
Age 0-64 43.0 0.1 42.5 0.2 44.9 0.3 42.2 0.4
65-74 48.7 0.1 50.3 0.1 45.2 0.3 43.3 0.3
75-84 40.1 0.1 40.9 0.1 37.6 0.2 36.0 0.3
85 and over 29.4 0.1 29.8 0.1 28.7 0.3 26.0 0.3
Gender Male 39.5 0.1 39.9 0.1 39.5 0.2 37.0 0.3
Female 38.4 0.1 38.5 0.1 39.2 0.2 36.6 0.2

a Excludes records with missing values.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Outcome and Assessment Information Set.

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