Table 10_1_5-3
2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.
| State | 2007 | 2005 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | SE | Percent | SE | |
| Total | 79.7 | 0.2 | 68.3 | 0.4 |
| Alabama | 78.0 | 1.5 | 71.1 | 2.3 |
| Alaska | 78.8 | 2.8 | 57.8 | 10.1 |
| Arizona | 76.3 | 1.4 | 66.9 | 5.5 |
| Arkansas | 77.1 | 2.0 | 70.6 | 3.0 |
| California | 75.6 | 0.7 | 60.0 | 1.7 |
| Colorado | 79.1 | 1.5 | 69.8 | 4.5 |
| Connecticut | 84.0 | 1.5 | * | * |
| Delaware | 85.2 | 2.4 | 73.1 | 4.2 |
| District of Columbia | 79.7 | 2.3 | * | * |
| Florida | 81.3 | 0.9 | 68.4 | 1.5 |
| Georgia | 75.0 | 1.3 | 64.1 | 2.8 |
| Hawaii | 77.5 | 3.5 | 58.2 | 3.2 |
| Idaho | 78.4 | 3.2 | 72.6 | 5.3 |
| Illinois | 76.5 | 1.2 | 66.0 | 2.1 |
| Indiana | 79.3 | 1.3 | 62.0 | 2.5 |
| Iowa | 83.1 | 1.6 | 71.4 | 3.1 |
| Kansas | 77.7 | 1.7 | 65.5 | 3.5 |
| Kentucky | 75.6 | 1.7 | 61.8 | 5.0 |
| Louisiana | 73.2 | 1.5 | 59.5 | 4.2 |
| Maine | 91.0 | 0.9 | 74.8 | 4.0 |
| Maryland | 83.6 | 1.3 | 69.2 | 2.4 |
| Massachusetts | 86.4 | 1.0 | 75.9 | 2.5 |
| Michigan | 86.4 | 0.9 | 77.4 | 1.5 |
| Minnesota | 85.7 | 1.1 | 65.8 | 4.8 |
| Mississippi | 75.6 | 2.2 | 60.4 | 2.9 |
| Missouri | 80.4 | 1.4 | 72.0 | 3.0 |
| Montana | 86.3 | 2.4 | 79.3 | 3.4 |
| Nebraska | 87.1 | 1.5 | 71.7 | 4.0 |
| Nevada | 70.2 | 2.3 | 50.2 | 6.4 |
| New Hampshire | 90.1 | 1.0 | 69.1 | 4.2 |
| New Jersey | 87.1 | 1.0 | 75.2 | 1.8 |
| New Mexico | 75.3 | 2.6 | 71.7 | 4.2 |
| New York | 82.5 | 0.7 | 69.1 | 1.8 |
| North Carolina | 82.9 | 1.1 | 73.2 | 2.0 |
| North Dakota | 84.3 | 3.6 | 79.9 | 3.4 |
| Ohio | 82.2 | 0.8 | 64.7 | 2.5 |
| Oklahoma | 81.1 | 1.6 | 79.0 | 3.1 |
| Oregon | 77.0 | 1.8 | 75.2 | 4.0 |
| Pennsylvania | 79.2 | 1.0 | 62.5 | 2.3 |
| Rhode Island | 88.4 | 1.9 | 85.0 | 4.4 |
| South Carolina | 83.4 | 1.5 | 73.6 | 2.3 |
| South Dakota | 87.6 | 2.6 | 80.1 | 3.9 |
| Tennessee | 76.8 | 1.5 | 67.7 | 3.1 |
| Texas | 74.1 | 0.9 | 61.7 | 2.3 |
| Utah | 77.0 | 2.1 | 60.4 | 4.0 |
| Vermont | 88.7 | 2.6 | 73.7 | 3.6 |
| Virginia | 79.6 | 1.3 | 63.9 | 3.7 |
| Washington | 83.1 | 1.1 | 74.3 | 4.1 |
| West Virginia | 73.4 | 2.6 | 66.7 | 3.2 |
| Wisconsin | 87.2 | 1.0 | 71.2 | 2.7 |
| Wyoming | 83.8 | 2.0 | 58.2 | 7.0 |
a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes administering preventive antibiotics 1 hour before incision and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time. Data were downloaded from http://www.medicare.gov/Download/DownloadDB.asp in late April each year. Estimates are calculated using hospital-level scores.
* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.
Key: SE: standard error.
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Compare.
Current as of September 2009
Internet Citation: Table 10_1_5-3: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports.
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