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Table 135b
Home health care patients who had to be admitted to the hospital, 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 27.9 0.0 26.8 0.0 34.1 0.1 30.7 0.1
Age 0-64 34.3 0.1 33.8 0.1 36.0 0.1 33.8 0.2
65-74 27.4 0.1 26.3 0.1 33.0 0.1 29.4 0.2
75-84 26.6 0.0 25.8 0.0 32.9 0.1 29.8 0.2
85 and over 26.3 0.1 25.4 0.1 34.3 0.2 30.6 0.2
Gender Male 29.7 0.0 28.7 0.0 35.1 0.1 32.9 0.2
Female 26.9 0.0 25.7 0.0 33.6 0.1 29.4 0.1

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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