NationalWhite Quality Measures Compared to Achievable Benchmarks
The quality measures specific to White are compared to achievable benchmarks, which are derived from the top-performing States. Better performance of a State can mean higher or lower values of a measure, depending on the desired outcome. For example, low values are desirable for measures such as infant mortality, whereas high values are desirable for measures such as preventative screening. The categories of achievement have been standardized across the measure definitions so that:
Note: Ethnicity is used (e.g. Non-Hispanic black) unless it is unavailable and race is used instead (e.g. Black only).
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- Benchmarks are available for 135 measures including 18 measures that are far away from the benchmark, 47 measures that are close to the benchmark, and 70 measures that achieved the benchmark or better.
- Benchmarks are unavailable for 96 measures (42 percent of all measures).