Proportion of adults who reported a clinic visit with poor communication from healthcare providers:
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White — 8.0 percent
Hispanic — 13.0 percent
Black — 11.7 percent
Poor — 15.9 percent
Low-income — 11.6 percent
Middle-income — 9.3 percent
High-income — 6.3 percent
Proportion of adults with a usual source of care whose healthcare providers sometimes or never asked for the patient’s help to make treatment decisions:
Hispanic — 18.9 percent
Black — 17.7 percent
White — 14.2 percent
Proportion of adults who needed language assistance at a usual source of care:
Hispanic — 43.8 percent
Non-Hispanic — 46.9 percent
Proportion of adults without a usual source of care who needed language assistance:
Hispanic — 52.6 percent
Non-Hispanic — 38.5 percent
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